From: glevy@PRATT.EDU
Date: Sat Jul 22 2006 - 11:15:50 EDT
> There has been a debilitating presumption in the history of > Marxism, against specifying "what socialism should look like". <snip, JL> > In the end, however, I don't think Bettelheim managed to resolve > the issues he raised (how many of us do?). In a much more > sophisticated form than many others, he tended to fall back on > the notion of a betrayal by Stalin and co., and more > particularly on the (bankrupt, IMO) notion of the USSR as "state > capitalist". > The latter notion attempts to ascribe the undesirable features > of the Soviet economy and society to "capitalism", thereby -- in > some notional sense -- preserving the virginal purity of the > conception of socialism, unsullied by any connection with > reality. Hi Allin and Howard: Did CB ever develop a systematic critique of the Maoist experience in the PRC? In solidarity, Jerry
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