File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1996/96-11-23.164, message 51


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




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