Date: Fri, 8 May 1998 08:29:46 +0100
From: Lew <Lew-AT-dialogues.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: M-TH: Re: Property relations vs political regime


In message <l03130348b177c9d21f79-AT-[130.244.236.195]>, Hugh Rodwell <m-
14970-AT-mailbox.swipnet.se> writes

>They were proto-socialist. The USSR was engaged in primitive socialist
>accumulation (see Preobrazhensky's book from 1925 The New Economics,
>Oxford, trans. Alec Nove). The expropriation of the bourgeoisie and the
>nationalization of the land, industry and finance makes any other
>definition nonsense (this of course applies to the state capitalist line).

We don't need to look at Preobrazhensky's book. We can read all about it
in Volume 1 of Marx's Capital, Part V111, "The So-Called Primitive
Accumulation". It explains how a largely peasant population were
converted into wage labourers, thereby creating capitalist social
relations of production. The process described bears an uncanny
resemblance to Preobrazhensky's so-called "socialist accumulation".

-- 
Lew


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