I thing that planning is possible nationally for agriculture, industry and
the services, but planning the technological progress is possible only globally.
Technology progress means unemployment, and that was not acceptable in the
Soviet Union, so the bureaucracy waited for a stability in
>Planning as a property relation and socialism is a political form of property, means reproduction outside of the law system that compels private capital to follow a circuit of profitability.
ed on the basis of the technological regime with the property relations
within. Here is where the technological regime in the Soviet Union hit the wall in
respects to the development of its agriculture.
An industrial worker expresses a specific social relations of production that
is materially differen
(posted to marxmail by Jose Perez)
>>I think that is probably correct. The Soviet Union was quite
successful in negotiating the transition from an agrarian economy to an
industrial one but they ran aground when they attempted to make the
transition to an economy based on high technolog
ter independence from the Soviet
Union, many of the
candidates in Ukraines presidential election, due in
October, say they want to go
back, more or less, to the old days. And at least three out
of the seven most serious
say they want to recreate the Soviet Un
On 25 Nov Louis wrote, in part: []
> Podiapolski recalls the outcome of the meeting with Lenin:
>
> "Having asked me some questions about the military and political situation
> in the Astrakhan' region, Vladimir Ilich expressed his approval for all of
> our initiatives an
derstanding took priority over the
accumulation of capital. The proposal was endorsed by Lenin himself who
thought that pure scientific research had to be encouraged. And this was at
a time when the Soviet Union was desperate for foreign currency.
In my next post, I will cover the period of the NEP.
Louis Proyect
There are many who say that the fall of the Soviet Union was
the consequence of bad policy. That is the sum total of their
political analysis explaining why the Soviet Union collapsed. Some
people blame the policies of Gorbachov, some people blame
Khrushchev. They even make a fetish of
There are many who say that the fall of the Soviet Union was
the consequence of bad policy. That is the sum total of their
political analysis explaining why the Soviet Union collapsed. Some
people blame the policies of Gorbachov, some people blame
Khrushchev. They even make a fetish of
There are many who say that the fall of the Soviet Union was
the consequence of bad policy. That is the sum total of their
political analysis explaining why the Soviet Union collapsed. Some
people blame the policies of Gorbachov, some people blame
Khrushchev. They even make a fetish of
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