Principled Discoursin' (was Re: [lbo-talk] BDL on Sweezy)

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Mon Mar 1 11:06:22 PST 2004


-----Original Message----- From: Michael Perelman <michael at ecst.csuchico.edu> Brad wrote about Sweezy praising Stalin's theoretical work.

MR Press, to pick one example, published a translation of Mao's, "Critique of Soviet Economics, " on JVS's, "Economic Problems of Socialism, " from '52, if memory serves, which was quite harsh. (A related work I read some decades ago, mentioned by Alvin Gouldner in a footnote http://www2.pfeiffer.edu/~lridener/DSS/Marx/app1.htm to his, "The Two Marxisms, " by Sayer, Ramsie and Corrigan, is quite good in explicating the maoist critique of Soviet planning, "11. That is a theme I have developed elsewhere. See Alvin W. Gouldner, ''Stalinism: A Study of Internal Colonialism,'' Telos, Winter 1977-78, esp. pp. 20-26. See also the pointed and succinct argument by Philip Corrigan, Harvey Ramsay, and Derek Sayer, 'Socialist Construction and Marxist Theory' (New York: Monthly Review Press, 1978).

Michael Pugliese



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