>>> Brad De Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 02/18/00 11:33PM >>>
>Brad wrote:
>>I owe the context for a Sweezy quote from _The Present as History_...
>>
>>The publication in 1952 of Stalin's _Economic Problems of Socialism in the
>>USSR_ would make possible today a more satisfactory reply to Mr. Kazahaya
>>on the law of value under socialism. Briefly, Stalin's position is that
>>the law of value still continues to operate under socialism to the extent
>>that certain features of capitalism, particularly the operation of the
>>price mechanism in the agricultural sector of the economy, have not yet
>>been eliminated. Under full communism, on the other hand, the law of value
>>will no longer apply. In the light of this explanation, which seems to me
>>entirely sound, I should like to amend the statement which Mr. Kazahaya
>>criticizes, by substituting "communist" for "socialist" and "communism"
>>for "socialism." It would then read as follows: "In the economics of a
>>communist society the theory of planning should hold the same basic
>>position as the theory of value in the economics of a capitalist society.
>>Value and planning are as much opposed, adn for the same reasons, as
>>capitalism and communism." This conveys my meaning more accurately than
>>the original wording and is, I think entirely in accord with Stalin's view...
>
>Well, this is a pretty mild and inconsequential thing to agree with Stalin
>about. (It's not like Sweezy was justifying mass purges.)
If I recall correctly (which I may not), it's the issue that got
Kondratiev shot...
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CB: Brad , this is your repeated tu quque/ ad hominem error. Henry Ford sending gobs
of money to Nazis and putting Hitler's picture on his office wall didn't mean that
Ford had bad economic (micro) theories.
CB
