Date: Sat, 2 Nov 1996 11:24:02 -0500 (EST) From: Justin Schwartz <jschwart-AT-freenet.columbus.oh.us> Subject: Re: M-TH: Stalin and industry On 2 Nov 1996, jc mullen wrote: > Justin > doesn't it worry you that you don't have a characterisation of the > stalinist economy.? It would worry me! A quarter of the world ( or much more if > we include other stalinist states) spends fifty years and more being something > that 99% of the world's population considers to be marxist communism. I wouldn't > look at any other auestion until I'd decided on an (even imprefect) analysis. It > would be a bit like not knowing where my mouth was. Sure, it worries me. That is in part why I discuss it, to seek illumination. But I won't embracea theory like state cap that is fatally flawed just to have a theory. There is a lot of important stuff about which I'd like to have a theory that I do not, some of which is much more important, for example, what an adequate theory of the transition to socialism would be. --jks --- from list marxism-thaxis-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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