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From: "Rebecca Peoples" <wellsfargo-AT-tinet.ie>
Subject: M-I: Soviet Union
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 16:37:02 -0700


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I have been reading a copy of the Trotskyist International. The article on
Russia in particular interested me. In the article it was siad that
although many of the state enterprises have benn privatised they are still
not capitalist. This is because, the article goes, the owners are not
largely concerned with the production of surplus value. Instead they are
more concerned with the maintenance of wages and employment. They are more
concerned with the increase in these factors rather than the maximisation
of profit. This for the author of the article is a problem for the
restoration process.

My problem is that i just dont see how private owners of a manufacturing
enterprise would concern himself with these matters when it is would be so
obvious that the maximisation of profit is the thing to follow up: his
aggrandisemnet.

>From 
Rebecca


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