Buick and Crump on the Alternative to Capitalism

It's not the internet exclusive that I promised Stuart of From Despair To Where blogging fame, but I hope the following link is of interest to the good readers of this humble blog for the time being. The Alternative to Capitalism is the last chapter of the Adam Buick and the late John Crump penned book, State Capitalism: the Wages System Under New Management.

Dating from 1986 the book is long out of print - and many would say that with the collapse of the Soviet Union, the book is more of a historical curiousity only consulted nowadays by students and academics alike - but the chapter that is now online is still especially relevant in the here and now because it goes into some detail in discussing the economic calculation and calculation in kind debate that, for many, is the ultimate sticking point for why a socialist world - a society based on the common ownership of the means of production and distribution - is an impossibility.

Thanks to Adam for allowing me to post the chapter on the internet.