Re: Reply to Paul Cockshott on socialist political economy

[Paul Cockshott <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

dmschanoes wrote:

> The Nits and the Grits of Poland:
>  There was an active left among the workers advocating renunciation of the
> debt, limiting the power of the church in education and property, and
> suppression of the Polish Home Army, the Grunwald Organization and other
> right wing anti-semitic formations.  But that left was not the product of
> any wing of the bureaucracy-- the bureaucracy accommodated itself more and
> more to the dynamics of capitalist restoration.  And thus it was made clear
> that there can be no "defense of socialized property relations" separate and
> apat from the success of the workers' revolution and the overthrow of the
> bureaucracy.

 All you say about Gierek is correct. But that does not invalidate what I
said about Solidarity being a workers organisation with a neo-liberal
leadership.





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