Re; Centralization

Joe R. Golowka joeG at ieee.org
Thu Jul 4 11:44:46 PDT 2002



> 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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