File spoon-archives/marxism-thaxis.archive/marxism-thaxis_1998/marxism-thaxis.9803, message 154


Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 19:14:18 -0500
From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood-AT-panix.com>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re:  Red pom-poms (was POCMPPMP)


Hugh Rodwell wrote:

>and Doug, forgetting we've been through this before, wrote:
>
>>Did he really? I had no idea. I better go look that up.
>
>Here's something I wrote on this last summer, arguing with Andrew about the
>nature of the Soviet regime among other things:
>
>>> The obvious reason for a Marxist is the growing
>>> collectivization, centralization and planning of production, and the
>>> disappearance of the individually responsible capitalist entrepreneur (Marx
>>> referred to the joint-stock company as the abolition of capitalism within
>>> its own framework, in Capital III) all in an increasingly tense
>>> contradiction with the persisting framework of relations of production
>>> based on individual ownership and its rights.
>
>and here's a couple of references until I get time to write out the quotes
>(or dig them out from some elusive post where I already did so):

Damn, you fell for that one Hugh. I not only knew that, I wrote about it at
some length in a book you'll never read.

Doug





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