Open AccessIs Socialism A Utopian Dream?
Author(s) -
Bruno Jossa
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
european scientific journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1857-7881
pISSN - 1857-7431
DOI - 10.19044/esj.2016.v12n8p121
Subject(s) - dream , capitalism , socialism , darwinism , neoclassical economics , evolutionism , democracy , capital (architecture) , sociology , economic system , political science , economics , epistemology , philosophy , law , communism , psychology , history , archaeology , neuroscience , politics
The idea that the establishment of a centrally planned system or the creation of a worker-controlled system amount to a socialist revolution is closely associated with the main contradictions that Marx highlighted in capitalism: the capital-labour conflict or the mismatch between planned production and anarchical distribution. Analysing these alternative forms of revolution, the author raises a number of questions: which of them fits human nature better? which of them is more closely associated with Darwinian evolutionism? is it correct to assume that democratic firm management tends to improve human nature?