Re: [OPE] Question to Marxologists: Mode of production

GERALD LEVY wrote:
> > We were talking about the USSR
>
>
>
> Hi Paul C:
>
> Yes, I am aware of that. The idea that the USSR
> was a "transitional economy" in which the law of value
> and the "law of primitive socialist accumulation" (LPSA) were
> both in play and in competition with each other was
> advanced by Preobrazhensky in _The New Economics_.
> >From his perspective - and that of the Left Opposition at
> the time - the question of which mode of production
> would eventually become the dominant one was still an
> open question (as indeed was the question of whether the
> USSR could survive for much longer). Even the Right
> Opposition at the time didn't claim that socialism was then the
> dominant mode of production in Soviet society. It was only
> years later that the victory of socialism was proclaimed - by
> Stalin.
>

OK then you have to say what the specific mode of surpuls extraction is
under socialism, and we are back where David was talking a week ago.
> In solidarity, Jerry
>
>
>
>
>
> > > Even if you say it was a social formation with multiple modes of >
> production, you need to characterise the dominant mode.
> >
> >
> > Hi Paul:
> >
> > It could be that at a certain moment in history in a particular
> > society there is no "dominant" mode of production: rather, there
> > could be different modes of production (and hence, classes) in combat
> > with each other for dominance.
> >
> > In solidarity, Jerry
> >
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