Re; Centralization

[Joe R. Golowka]

> At 9:11 PM +0000 7/3/02, Justin Schwartz wrote:
> >One thing that is reasonably certain is that in 1979-85, the Soviet
> >economy went into deep crisis, and this was geberally recognized.
>
> So did the capitalist economy in the 70s, with stagflation and all,
> which gave rise to the neoliberal rollback.  Has anyone analyzed the
> synchronicity of crises in capitalist and socialist economies?

Raya Dunayeskaya did some analysis.  She had some interesting theories on it - basically considered
it one big capitalist crisis brought on by the declining rate of profit predicted by Marx (she
considered the USSR to be state-capitalist).

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