Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 08:38:33 -0500 (EST) From: Gerald Levy <glevy-AT-pratt.edu> Subject: Re: M-TH: Stalin and industry jc mullen wrote: > It's a little amusing to see two threads : one on Marx and capital, and > another > one on Stalin which seems to ignore everything Marx said about capital (well > it's Monday morning and I feel mean). Stalin's state terrorism was the > capitalist industrial revolution in Russia; Concentration of capital > into large > lumps, concentration of populationinto countryside, teaching peasants the > discipline in their millions of being proletarians. Well ... that is a rather strange interpretation of "everything Marx said about capital." To begin with, let's talk about some very basic categories, starting with -- commodity production (including use-value, value, and the *value-form*. Commodities also, by definition, require *markets* and *money* Then there's labour-power as a *commodity*, constant capital, variable capital, surplus value, profit, accumulation of capital, etc., etc. Note that these value- and capital-forms are *necessary* forms of appearance associated with capitalism. Then, there's the question of class relations between *wage-earners* and *capitalists*. Doesn't the ownership (and non-ownership) and control (and non-control) of the means of production shape that relation? Doesn't this, moreover, require the periodic existence of an industrial reserve army (and unemployment)? Also, what about the whole subject of *competition* (as distinct from capital-in-general)? Jerry --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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