“Marxism,” wrote the American legal historian William E. Nelson in 1985, “is not about to disappear as an attractive ideology or as a powerful political force in the world.” The prediction was not well timed. The Marxism of the socialist bloc was anything but an attractive ideology or a...

Foreword by Francesco Schettino Part I:Capitalism and Socialism as Modes of Production 1. Introduction to Part I2. The hard scientific underpinnings of XXIth century political economy3. Modes of production and socioeconomic formations 4. Labor and value 5. Real competition, pending issues and...