Date: Tue, 1 Jul 1997 09:42:41 +1000 From: Rob Schaap <rws-AT-comserver.canberra.edu.au> Subject: Re: M-I: state capitalism G'day Andy, >Same with the fascism, where the state takes a large role in >securing exploitative relations of a capitalist sort--since the capitalist >mode of production predominates, fascism is a form of capitalism. Is it tenable to say that, had a significant sector of SU production been constituted by a relation between private owners of means of production and wage workers, then the SU would have been fascist (if all else remained as it was)? I guess what I'm wrestling with is, how meaningful is the difference between Hitler's Germany and Stalin's SU? This is not a rhetorical question. I just want to appreciate what distinctions can be drawn between the two systems from the point of view that counts, that of the worker. >Fascism is an aberration, without >question emerging from capitalism (indeed, many Marxists argue that >liberalism, with its emphasis on rationalization, must exist for fascism >to emerge in the form that that it did, both in fascism's hyperrationalism >and in its reaction against liberalism and democracy). I think this was, and is, the Frankfurters' position, eh? To what degree was such rationalisation not evident in the SU, do you think? Gotta go, Cheers, Rob. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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