Gerry:
>Whether workers in the former "USSR" labored "for capital" depends on how
>you define and understand capital in that social formation. It is true,
>though, that laborers can exceptionally take the form of non-wage earners
>under specific historical circumstances in capitalist social formations
>(e.g. slave labor in the pre-Civil War South). These laborers (slaves),
>however, were not proletarians any more than laborers in "slave labor
>camps" could be counted as being proletarians.
>
Why do you regard the ante-bellum south as a capitalist rather than
a slave society?
Paul Cockshott
wpc@cs.strath.ac.uk
http://www.cs.strath.ac.uk/CS/Biog/wpc/index.html