From: Dave Zachariah (davez@kth.se)
Date: Sat Aug 30 2008 - 12:37:34 EDT
Hi John, on 2008-08-30 18:10 you wrote: > Your argument could be correct, except in case that "Soviet-socialism" > is not a mode of production (MP) different from the Capitalist MP in > as far as: > (1) Socialism in general does not constitute a new MP but a regime of > transition from capitalism (the CMP) to communism (i.e. the gradual > "demolition" of the CMP), and > (2) "Soviet-socialism" shall be regarded as a form of capitalism: > State-capitalism. I can accept the idea that the name "Soviet-socialism" is wrong given the goals of more than a generation of socialists prior to the October revolution and that perhaps "bureaucratic collectivist" mode of production is more accurate. However, regarding (1) this is nothing but a matter of schematism from the Communist movement, so there is no substantive difference of opinion here. However, I disagree with (2). To regard the mode of production that existed in the Soviet Union as a "form of capitalism" does not seem to me to be based on a serious historical-materialist analysis. The specific mode in which the social division of labor was organized and the particular way in which the surplus product was extracted differed completely from capitalism. In the Soviet-type mode of production, the surplus product was determined by a political plan and appropriated by taxes. //Dave Z _______________________________________________ ope mailing list ope@lists.csuchico.edu https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/ope
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