>From the translators introduction
FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES OF COMMUNIST PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION is the
classic exposition of the economics of communism - and, indeed, apart from
the first outline sketches given by Marx in his CRITIQUE OF THE GOTHA
PROGRAMME, upon which the book is based, the only one ever to have been
produced. The first working draft was the work of the well-known German
proletarian revolutionary and veteran member of the KAPD, JAN APPEL, (see
Subversion) alias MAX HEMPEL. This draft was subsequently revised and
completed in Dutch by a collective composed of members of the GROUP OF
INTERNATIONAL COMMUNISTS of Holland (GIK) and published in German by the
ALLGEMEINE ARBEITERUNION DEUTSCHLANDS (GENERAL WORKERS' UNION OF GERMANY)
in 1930. It does for communist society what Marx's CAPITAL did for
capitalism and is perhaps the most advanced intellectual achievement of the
German Revolution.
Paul Cockshott