Karl Polanyi and discussions on a renewed socialism

Michael Brie

doi:10.5771/2566-7742-2019-1-116

Abstract

Karl Polanyi and discussions on a renewed socialism

Highlights

Michael Brie and experimented with building-up concrete communities of New Harmony
Karl Marx resumed this position in his main work, Capital, as follows: "Let us picture to ourselves ... a community of free individuals, carrying on their work with the means of production in common, in which the labour power of all the different individuals is consciously applied as the combined labour power of the community. [...] The social relations of the individual producers, with regard both to their labour and to its products, are in this case perfectly simple and intelligible, and that with regard to production and to distribution" (Marx, 1996, 89 f.)
Loomis and published under the title Fundamental Concepts of Sociology (Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft), in 1955 the same work was published as Community and Association and in 1957 as Community and Society

Summary

Introduction

Michael Brie and experimented with building-up concrete communities of New Harmony. The result would be the same – rebuilding societies as communities. In The Great Transformation this assumption was no longer held at all – freedom should be realized in a complex society never reducible to Gemeinschaft and dealing with very different institutional forms always confronted with the problem of objectivations and relative independence (Verselbständigung) and alienation (Entfremdung) but having the horizon a community of free individuals acting together in solidarity.

Results

Conclusion