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Cambridge Journal of Economics 2005 29(1):3-18; doi:10.1093/cje/bei012
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Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 29, No. 1, © Cambridge Political Economy Society 2005; all rights reserved

Marx, Marxism and the cooperative movement

Bruno Jossa*

* Department of ‘Theoretical and Applied Economics’, University of Naples Federico II

Address for correspondence: Department of ‘Theoretical and Applied Economics’, University of Naples Federico II, via G. Piscicelli 77, 80121 Naples, Italy; email: bruiossa{at}unina.it

This paper has a dual aim: first, to draw attention to a number of passages in which Marx explicitly extolled the cooperative movement and thereby confute the wrong but widely held assumption that Marx was inimical to the market and rejected cooperation as a production mode even for the transition period; second, to argue that the continuing neglect of Marxists both of the cooperative movement and of the passages from Marx (and Engels) that present a system of producer cooperatives as a new production mode can be traced back in part to the late emergence of an economic theory of producer cooperatives.

Key Words: Marx • Marxism • Socialism and cooperative movement

JEL classifications: B13, D23, D74

Manuscript received December 9, 2002; final version received June 30, 2003.


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