Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 13:18:22 -0400 (EDT) From: Siddharth Chatterjee <siddhart-AT-mailbox.syr.edu> Subject: Re: M-I: Money capital & the exSoviet Union On Thu, 18 Sep 1997, neil wrote: > > Marxists see socialist/communist society as a society > without money, wages , commoditity production, profits etc > in any form and which produces use-values for peoples > real needs . This the exUSSR/Russia has never done. > Neil, here. is equating socialism (a form of class society with the dictatorship of the working class over the capitalists) with communism (classless society, hence no state) by his use of the phrase "socialist/communist" society. Between bourgeois society and communism, there may/will be entire historical eras which will consist of socialist societies at higher and higher levels. The class struggle does not cease with the initial establishment of the workers government. So in contrary to Neil, in socialist society, there will be wages and money. The principle that operates here is "from each according to his ability, to each according to his/her work". This principle will be gradually replaced by "from each according to his ability, to each according to his/her need" as the society advances on the road towards the classless society. Thus the possibilty of a capitalist restoration will always be there in a socialist society since class struggle is not only present but may intensify. The point at which a socialist society transforms into its opposite, i.e., capitalist society; i.e., at what point does a qualitative backward leap occurs, is a topic of careful analysis. Since human beings will make this analysis about human society, some subjectivism will be involved in the final conclusion. Nevertheless, the point wis to minimize this subjectivity as far as possible. --- from list marxism-international-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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