Between Capitalism and Community

In his newest book, Michael A Lebowitz deepens the arguments he made in his award-winning Beyond Capital, whereas Karl Marx, in Capital, treated capitalism as an organic system that reproduces its premises of capital and wage-labor, Lebowitz argues that the solidarity of workers in struggle points toward an organic system of community, an alternative system that produces its own premises, communality, and recognition of the needs of others. With stunning precision, Between Capitalism and Community demonstrates a liberating analysis: capitalism contains within itself elements of a different society, one of community. Michael A Lebowitz is professor emeritus of economics at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and the author of several books including The Socialist Imperative and The Contradictions of Real Socialism. He was Director, Program in Transformative Practice and Human Development, Centro Internacional Miranda, in Caracas, Venezuela, from 2006 to 2011.