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A SOCIALIST CRITIQUE of The BBC, Albert Einstein, Amartya Sen and Muhammad Yunus

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ISBN 10: 
81-902529-2-5
Number of pages: 
112
First published: 
9th November, 2007
This edition: 
9th November, 2007
Blurb: 

The author of this book, Binay Sarkar, exposes the futility of reformism under production for profit that is capitalism. He communicates to the readers the subtle methodological differences between idealist and materialist conceptions of history. He puts forward with precision the argumentations, which promote the case for socialism that is production for use as the urgent need of our time and as the necessary outcome of the ongoing class struggle. He leaves no room for ambiguity about what Marxism really is and how it is to be applied to analyse current events and social evolution.

For him, socialism - the negation of capitalism - can succeed safely only by peaceful and democratic organization and action by the immense majority of the working class of the world. He makes the point that anything less than universal ownership and democratic control of the means of production and distribution cannot address the problems the world faces today.

He shows how necessary it is today to avoid personalities and to work to establish democratically a world without classes, wages, money, banking, poverty and famines, wars, terrorism and the state, replacing production for profit with production for use, a place where freedom really means free.

It deserves a mention that these essays dealing with some of the burning questions of the day have drawn world-level attention in that Adam Buick - a socialist from London - has penned an essay-length introduction.

Contents: 

Introduction -- Adam Buick

Marxism

The Ideology of Four Factors of Production
i.     'Risk and Uncertainty'
ii.    Only two not four

BBC visits Karl Marx, but what Is he?
i.     No economic determinism
ii.    And how is history made?
iii.   No ready-made utopias
iv.   The Talk
v.    Reply to Marx critics

Albert Einstein and Socialism
i.     Planning the Law of Value?
ii.    Lenin's distortion
iii.   Einstein's error
iv.   The Law of Value pulled down the Russian Empire

Sen's "Socialist Economy"
i.     This definition of the 'socialist economy' is an oxymoron
ii.    What is Socialism?
iii.   Sen disregards Marx
iv.   Amartya's 'socialist economies' - such as China
v.    Marx: man as the aim of production

Sen's Welfare Economics
i.     Amartya Sen's works as he has put in his "Autobiography"
ii.    "Poverty is no less funny" -- Sen
iii.   What would "market entitlements" mean to Marx?
iv.   Did Marx ever measure "poverty"?
v.    What about mathematics?
vi.   Sen on the famines
vii.  Sen's "causation"
viii. Whither "equality"? "Measurement of economic inequality"
ix.   What "Rights"?
x.    "Relative wage"
xi.   A Professor's "leftie" Nostalgia
xii.  Classifying "the people"
xiii. Employment and unemployment
xiv. The objective basics of Marx's humanism
xv.  "Modern Economics" -- A Capitalist Detour

Sen Looks East
i.     Oriental Slavery
ii.    Ariyans and Dravidians
iii.   Buddhism
iv.   Not castes -- but estates, and no escape
v.    Banish Gods from skies and Capitalists from Earth

Sen, Identity and Democracy
i.     As Engels has elucidated the interconnection

Muhammad Yunus: Banking for Peace?

 

Biographical note(s): 

Binay Sarkar is a retired Selected Grade Lecturer in and Head of the Department of Economics and a former member of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) who has eventually come to see that this and other Leninist parties stand for state capitalism, not real socialism as understood by Marx and Engels. Subsequently a founder member of the World Socialist Party (India) he is the General Secretary of the Party. He lives and works at the Head Office of the Party at 257 Baghajatin 'E' Block (East), Kolkata - 700 086, India.

Adam Buick is the co-author of a study of the economy of the now former USSR, "State Capitalism: The Wages System under New Management". He is currently one of the editors of the "Socialist Standard", a monthly socialist journal that has been published continuously in London since 1904.