So do you consider west european style welfare states coordinator states too? What's the range of gini coefficients you need to be coordinator as opposed to capitalist?
> In terms of power, it is not that coordinators as a class had less power
> than a capitalists class. But is was exercised in a fundamentally
> different way. The relation of workers to the Soviet elite was much
> more like the relation of workers to managers in the U.S. than the
> relation of workers to capitalists.
How so? You don't think the USSR followed m-c...p...m'-c'? What's wrong with viewing the managers & planners as the soviet coordinator class and the upper party members (politburo, etc.) as capitalists?
> In short, I think that if you were analyzing the Soviet Union at any
> point in it's early history - I think considering it a "coordinator
> state" would have had better analytical and predictive power than
> considering it a "state capitalism".
What does a coordinator model accurately predict that a state monopoly capitalism model doesn't?
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