On Property and Ownership Relations

A Return to the Social Theory of Karl Marx

Wieslaw Gumula

• Publisher: Peter Lang Group
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9783653063219
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Sociology
• Index: Social Sciences

This book comprises a systematic analysis of Karl Marx's reasoning on ownership. Marx as the author of an original theory of ownership is yet to be discovered. The creator of a theory which was to interpret social reality is quite a different thinker from the creator of a doctrine which was to alter the world. In designing communist society, Marx ignored the threats which social property bears, despite having skillfully identified them in investigations of diverse pre-capitalistic forms of common ownership. The author seeks to break through one-sided interpretations which discern in Marx a decisive critique of private property and an apologia of common ownership. It becomes apparent that Marx treated both the processes of socialization and privatization of ownership with equal consideration.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter I: What is Ownership?
• Chapter II: A History of Privatization: Pre-Capitalistic Forms of Ownership
• Chapter III: Capitalistic Forms of Private Ownership and Other
• Chapter IV: Social Property – Shades of Privatization and Socialization of Property
• Chapter V: Property and Social Structure
• Chapter VI: Conclusions
• Bibliography