Re: Query for Anti-Market Socialists

[Adam Rose <adam@xxxxxxxx>]

>
> How come Schweickartian proposals for market socialism can
> be dismissed as "abstract modelling", and "utopian", and the
> like, but proposals for planning all production on the basis
> of a smoothly coordinated hierarchy of democratic workers and
> consumers councils stretching across all nations can't be.
>
> I'm a bit puzzled about this.  Is it just a case of calling
> names what you don't like for other reasons/prejudices?
>

NO !

Marx's statement along the lines of "the working class cannot simply
lay hands on the existing state" but needs to smash it and replace it
with its own came AFTER the Paris commune.

Lenin, Trotsky and others drew the theoretical consequences of the
Soviet AFTER 1905.

We have seen the embryo of similar organisations repeatedly since then -
Chile and the cordones, Iran and the Shoras, Solidarnosc in 1980-81.

Adam.

Adam Rose
SWP
Manchester
UK


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