Re; Centralization

Joe R. Golowka joeG at ieee.org
Fri Jul 5 11:31:22 PDT 2002



> >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).
> >
> >Joe R. Golowka
>
> How did the declining rate of profit in the capitalist economy affect
> the USSR? What's Dunayevskaya's take on the link (or anyone else's
> for that matter)?

She said that the crisis in the west & the USSR was caused by the same thing: the decline in the rate of profit. She considered the USSR to be a state-capitalist economy which followed all the basic "laws of motion" for a capitalist society as outlined by Marx including the decline in the rate of profit.

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