Subject: Re: M-G: so-called "deformed workers states"
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:35:22 +1100 (EST)


> 
> >dear Bob Malecki,
> >
> >I would hope that YOU and others would think over the brief
> >critique of the Russian (state capitalist--Neil) regime
> >by Simone Wiel from "Revolution proletarienne
> ># 158", Aug. 1933 that you posted 1/21/97.
> 
> Sorry Neil, but there is no way you can possibly convince me of your "state 
> capitalist" theory. The main reason is because I am a Trotskyist and you 
> know how Trotskyist's think on this question.
> >
The simplest refutation of the Trotkyist position on the Soviet Union 
being socialist, is the fact that Western capitalism is obviously a more 
advanced stage of social development than Soviet "socialism".   A 
"socialism" that is inferior to capitalism aint socialism. With the 
demise of the old Soviet state capitalism, we are now seeing the messy 
transition to this more advanced western form of capitalism. 


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