Socialism: the 100-Year-Old Misnomer

Dana Neacşu is Director of the Duquesne Center for Legal Information & Associate Professor of Legal Skills, and Adjunct Professor at Barnard College. She has published monographs, translations, and articles on law and society, including The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx & the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence (2019).

• Foreword George P. Fletcher Acknowledgments List of Figures, Maps and Tables Introduction: Socialism and Its Long Misnomer History 1 Why Now? 2 Ersatz Socialism and State Monopoly Capitalism 3 Technologically Mediated Commonsense 4 Choosing the Path of Commonsense Built on Insight Part 1 Socialism as Theory and Practice 1 Socialism’s 19th Century Pedigree 2 Ersatz Socialism as Soviet Theory and Practice 1 Capitalism and Ersatz Socialism 2 The Theoretical Foundation of 20th Century Soviet or Ersatz Socialism 3 John Reed’s Account of 20th Century Ersatz Socialism 4 Bertrand Russell’s Account of 20th Century Ersatz Socialism 5 Soviet Socialism—Actuating State Capital Monopoly Part 2 The Political, Economic, and Legal Scaffolding of Ersatz Socialism 3 Beyond the Narrative of Failed Socialism 4 Government and Politics 1 Democracy Begins in Conversation 2 Oligarchy and Dictatorship 3 Ersatz Socialism Strived as an Authoritative Political Regime 5 State Corporate Capitalism as the Most Profitable Economic Policy 1 How Does Non-Competitive Capitalism Work? 2 Why Is a Non-Competitive State Capitalism Capitalist and Not Socialist? 3 Democratic Capitalism Encourages Free Enterprise; Ersatz Socialism Encourages Corporate Monopoly 4 Non-Democratic Capitalism Encourages State Corporate Domination and Planned Competition 5 Ersatz Socialism Strives on the Socialization of Production and Centralization of Profit 6 So, What Is the Connection between Socialism and Capitalism? 6 The Rule of Law in Ersatz Socialism 1 Brief Definition of the Rule of Law in a Liberal Democracy 2 Brief Definition of Soviet Rule of Law in Ersatz Socialism 3 Soviet Private (Civil) Law. The Law of Property and Contracts 4 Soviet Public Law Implemented a Dictatorial Rule of Law Part 3 Socialism—From Ersatz to Knowledge 7 The 100-Year-Old Socialist Misnomer and “Dialectical Criticism” 8 Things, Concepts, and Judgment Calls as the Building Block of Common Knowledge 9 The Dynamic Nature of Insight and Commonsense Knowledge Conclusion Appendix A: J.V. Stalin: Constitution (Fundamental Law) of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics Appendix B: U.S. Constitution. 1787. https://constitution.congress.gov /constitution/ References Indexå