From: "Paul Bowman" <paulbowman-AT-totalise.co.uk>
Subject: AUT: Pragmatism, Purism & the Peso
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:09:21 -0000


If bourgeois rule in argentina is swept away what is to be done about the
peso? Should measures be taken to stop its fall in value or should it be
abandoned?

If the way forward must necessarily pass through a phase of "lower phase
communism" wherein the form of bourgeois value exchange is retained (within
the context of "socialisation of the means of production" and "proletarian
dictatorship") as Marx said in the Gothakritik. Then surely all measures
necessary must be taken to stabilise the value of the peso?

If this vista is unappealing, then can we avoid the problems of immediately
constructing a post-monetary regime of production and distribution or must
we, in contrast, confront the "purist" and "intellectual" problems of how to
create an immediately communist society (without intervening transitional
phase)?

Are these questions abstract or are they fundamental ones confronting the
Argentianian working class people right now?




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