File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/marxism-international.9707, message 77


From: "Karl Carlile" <joseph-AT-indigo.ie>
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 09:54:16 +0000
Subject: Re: M-I: State capitalism


Karl: Hi Lew! If, as you claim, the Soviet Union was state capitalist 
how then did exhange relations prevail and beyond that again value 
relations?

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LEW:Your first sentence is truly astonishing, coming from somebody who has
put so much effort into stopping discussion of Marx's theory of value
("abstractions"). Or rather, one particular interpretation of it. I am
under no illusion that what really upsets you is the theory of state
capitalism and how it strikes at some deeply held personal beliefs.
But that, as they say, is your problem. My defence of the theory of
state capitalism is based on a working class perspective on how such
changes would affect me and my fellow workers around the world.
Criticism of the theory of state capitalism, it seems to me, is based
on a defence of the regime with the working class coming a poor
second.

                                      




                          Yours etc.,
                                     Karl   


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