Preface List of Figures 1 Introduction 1 Nine Claims 2 Summary of the Book2 Capitalism (and Capital) 1 The 'Standard View' 2 Capital: A Macro-monetary Totality 3 The Case against Capitalism: Essential Determinations and Systematic Tendencies 4 Conclusion3 The Present Moment of World History 1 Technological Change and Valorisation in Contemporary Capitalism 2 From a 'Golden Age' to a Global Slump 3 Neoliberalism 4 Conclusion4 A Socialist Constitution 1 Marx's Ruling Principle 2 'Free Development' (1): Self-Governance without Domination 3 'Free Development' (2): The Freedom of Particular Social Individuals 4 'Full Development': Universal and Particular Needs 5 Two Solidarity Constraints 6 Further Principles 7 Conclusion5 The Local Level (1): The Democratic Determination of Social Needs and Production Proposals 1 The Social Determination of Social Needs 2 Two Notes 3 The Investment Requests of Production Collectives 4 The Estimation of Costs 5 Retained Earnings and Market Socialism 6 Conclusion6 The Local Level (2): Social Investment, Social Production, and Social Exchange 1 The Allocation of Social Investment 2 The Process of Production 3 The Acquisition of Consumption Goods 4 Conclusion7 The Role of 'Money' in Socialist Accounting 1 Some Questions 2 A Note on Money in Capitalism 3 Some Relevant Determinations of the Socialist Alternative 4 Conclusion8 Regional Networks of Production and Exchange 1 Some general remarks on regional production 2 Regional production for social needs and the solidarity constraints 3 Regional production networks and the coordination of social investments 4 The regional innovation system 5 Conclusion9 Socialism on the National and International Levels 1 The transition to the national and international levels 2 Production for social needs on the national and international levels 3 The Social Transaction Centre 4 A note on the implications of the first solidarity constraint on the international level 5 National and international Democratic Assemblies 6 National and international Agencies 7 The national and international innovation systems 8 The fraught relationship with the remnants of capitalism 9 Conclusion10 Incentives and Efficiency in the Socialist Model 1 Incentive objections 2 Efficiency objections 3 Conclusion11 Socialism and the 'Realm of freedom' 1 The realm of freedom in capitalism and socialism: some contrasts 2 Commons-based peer production in contemporary capitalism 3 The realm of necessity and the realm of freedom: a dialectical unity-in-difference 4 An emancipatory promise fulfilled: commons-based peer production and the socialist project 5 Conclusion12 Conclusion 1 Why socialism is needed 2 The republican socialist model: a summary 3 How do we get there from here? Appendix Bibliography Index.