They may have said it on other occasions; however, if I recall
correctly, we had a bit of exchange. I wrote a note, 'Only capitalist
laws of motion?' in the November 1986 MR, which may have been in
response to something they wrote earlier and they responded in the
same issue. I didn't agree with them (ie., I think there were unique
laws of motion in the USSR et al, which I subsequently attributed to
the 'vanguard mode of production') but didn't pursue the question
(for reasons I'm not certain about 19 years later).
cheers,
michael
At 11:49 13/12/2005, you wrote:
Does anyone else remember this _and_ its exact source. I'm not even sure
whether it was Sweezy and Magdoff, or Sweezy in an exchange with
someone. I remember the point being made fairly vividly, but can't
remember anything about the source.
Carrol
Carrol Cox wrote:
>
> Some years ago Sweezy & Magdoff argued that there was no economic
> science of a _socialist_ mode of production, because decisions would be
> consciously made and therefore not subject to "laws of economics."
Michael A. Lebowitz
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