> [!summary] Progressive Summary # Structured Notes ## Definitions ## Chapter Summaries ### Use Value and Non-Market Socialism In order to have substantive democracy, in which we share decision-making and collectively implement our decisions, we need to free ourselves from market-based relationships. Non-market socialism offers greater efficiency in both economics and politics. Contributors to the lineage of non-market socialism: - impossibilists - anarcho-communists - council communists - Bordigists - Situationists Non-market socialism means a money-less, market-less, wage-less, class-less, and state-less society that aims to satisfy everyone's basic needs while power and resources are shared in just and 'equal' ways. Relationship between socialism and communism: - Marx and Lenin saw socialism as a transitional or halway stage to communism - Socialists are often seen as 'soft' and less doctrinaire, violent and fundamentalist than communists - They differ in the degree of authoritarianism, hierarchy and belief in state power # Quotes