File spoon-archives/aut-op-sy.archive/aut-op-sy_2002/aut-op-sy.0203, message 38


Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 09:16:26 -0500
From: Louis Proyect <lnp3-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: AUT: capitalist cuba?


Wallach, you appear to be a professor at William and Mary. How did anybody
capable of writing such low-level drivel like this ever write a
dissertation, let alone get a teaching job? Or did you turn stupid after
getting tenure.

At 09:11 AM 3/4/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>Oh, Louis, all that nasty militant posturing and all you can come up with
>is a dreary, threadbare apologia for Cuban state capitalism.  Wages but no
>wage slavery?  Capital but no capitalism?  There is something positively
>medieval about your logic.
>
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>>>4. If capital is accumulated at the level of the state through extraction
>>from the labour of the workers, why should this not be called capitalism? 
>>
>>Because there is no ruling class. Capital is not privately expropriated but
>>allocated socially.
>>
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Louis Proyect
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