Since the fall of the Berlin Wall we have been told that no alternative to Western capitalism is possible or desirable …. This book challenges this view with two arguments. First, the above premise ignores the enormous variety within capitalism …

Foreword by Francesco Schettino Part I:Capitalism and Socialism as Modes of Production 1. Introduction to Part I2. The …. Labor and value 5. Real competition, pending issues and the core propositions of the surplus approach6. Real socialism and … the law of value7. The Meta-Mode of Production 8. Socialism under the Meta Mode of Production Part II: China's journey …

"Over a hundred years after the first socialist revolution broke the global monopoly of capitalism, a new class of … socialist-oriented socioeconomic development is coming to the fore. Capitalism is still dominant worldwide, although its … alternative path to overcoming the worldwide crisis of globalized capitalism. It offers a novel, balanced and historically rooted …