[lbo-talk] Re: Consumer goods (Back to the USSR)

Bill Bartlett billbartlett at dodo.com.au
Mon Feb 9 07:08:58 PST 2004


At 4:47 PM +0200 9/2/04, Tahir Wood wrote:


>It was that particular form of the capitalist state that I call
>'authoritarian welfare', a modernising form of the state in those
>countries that didn't go through a bourgeois revolution, a state
>that is unavoidably temporary once its tasks are accomplished. I
>think Stalin was a great man for this reason only, that he was
>brutal, determined, unscrupulous and cunning enough to force march a
>massive country through the stage of capitalist development in
>double quick time. Unfortunately, despite his M-L theory, this does
>not lead to socialism, but from one stage of capitalism to another.

If such a country has not yet gone through a bourgeois revolution, how can this logically be described as a transition "from one stage of capitalism to another"? If it isn't capitalist to start with, but feudal, then it seems more accurate to describe this as a transition from feudalism to capitalism.

Bil Bartlett Bracknell Tas



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