Phil Walden: It was a bourgeois state because it was part of a world system
of bourgeois relations - all states extracting a surplus from their
populations. Thus the Soviet Union could not have been some form of workers
state. But it wasn't capitalist because the surplus extracted in the Sovi
--- On Mon, 2/23/09, Phil Walden
> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 7:26 PM
> Phil Walden: It was a bourgeois state because it was part of
> a world system
> of bourgeois relations - all states extracting a surplus
> from their
> populations. Thus the Soviet Union could not have been
> some fo
Sorry CB, I was just jesting.
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Phil Walden: It was a bourgeois state because it was part of a world system
of bourgeois relations - all states extracting a surplus from their
populations. Thus the Soviet Union could not have been some form of workers
state. But it wasn't capitalist because the surplus extracted in the Soviet
U
CB, you a damn lawyer, why do I have to write this and continuously explain
the most elementary understanding of the Marxist approach to the state!!!
^^^
Waistline, I'm willing to discuss this with you
but , you know, _on the surface_ at least, your
discussion doesn't have the appearance of
a c
CB: Why use the term "bourgeois" if it wasn't
form of capitalism ?
^^
It ceased to be a degenerated workers state when the
possibility of a democratic opposition to Stalin within the CPSU based on
Trotskyists/Bukharinists expired (1930).
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Sometime around 1976, I purchased
Interesting that Rosa should mention
Lamarckianism in this context, as
I have argued that culture and
language give humans a Lamarckian-like
adaptive mechanism. Culture and language
, symboling, allow inheritance of
acquired, extra-somatic , characteristics.
CB
The 'Lamarckian' Origin Of Speec
Ralph Dumain
Total idiocy, delusional nonsense, senseless gibberish, from first
word to last.
CB: This is wishful and lazy "thinking"
a childish , whining "critique", because
you can't make a good argument. You are
stumped, trumped and checkmated. Pitiful
really. You should be embaras
Phil Walden
I would agree with Jim F that present day Russia is some form of state
capitalism.
On the nature of the former Soviet Union I think it was none of the
alternatives offered by Jim (and by Trotskyism in the post-war period). It
was a bureaucratic bourgeois state in which a surplus was
Jim,
Essay Thirteen Part Three has finally been published --
on 'Mind', Language and 'Cognition'. It has been delayed
many months since it is exceedingly long.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/rosa.l/page_13_03.htm
Apart from Essay Twelve Part One, it is
my most Wittgensteinian essay.
You already list several articles of mine on your web site. As a physicist, my
primary field is conceptual foundations of physics so that I have put on my
university web site a collection of some of my published articles on
dialectical materialism and the philosophy of the nature scien
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