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Oct. Rev & Transition from Capitalism to Socialism-Communism

Marxist, XXXIII, 4, October-December 2017

d. Koutsoumpas

The Significance of the October Revolution in the Era of the Transition from Capitalism to Socialism-Communism

In 2017 we will honour the 100th anniversary of the Great Socialist Revolution that took place in 1917 in Russia. This event marked and determined the course of millions of people, not just within the geographical confines of the first workers’ state in the history of humanity, the USSR, but it also had an impact of every corner of the planet for many decades.

The Concept of Primitive Accumulation of Capital

Marxist, XXXIII, 4, October-December 2017

Prabhat Patnaik

The Concept of Primitive Accumulation of Capital

Having analyzed the anatomy of the capitalist mode of production, Marx had turned his attention towards the end of Capital Volume I to the question of how this mode of production had at all come into being. And here he had introduced his concept of ‘primitive accumulation of capital’.