Marx, Lenin and the Cooperative Movement

Bruno Jossa

Review of Political Economy, 2014, vol. 26, issue 2, 282-302

Abstract: Drawing upon the writings of Marx and Lenin, this article refutes the widely shared but incorrect assumption that Marx and Lenin rejected cooperation even as a mode of production for the transitional period. It reviews Marx's belief that cooperatives would gradually supplant capitalistic firms, and that the generalised growth of cooperation would give rise to a new mode of production; the article also analyses Lenin's 1923 article on cooperation in which not only is cooperation described as a major step in the transition to socialism, but even equated with socialism at large. The hypotheses of this article are supported through a close reading of these works and also shed light on numerous implications arising from this reading.

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1080/09538259.2014.881649

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