Re: Reply to Paul Cockshott on socialist political economy

["dmschanoes" <dmschanoes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: "Paul Cockshott" <clyder@xxxxxxxxxx>

> I think this is subjective. Some western leftists thought that there was
an opportunity there, actually there was not.
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Strange, I think your position is highly subjective. I don't know if there
was an "opportunity,"  but I'm sure there was the necessity.   If there ever
was a condition that fit Marx's analysis of the conflict between the means
and the relations of production, Poland was it.

The economy was grinding to a halt, living standards falling, as the
bureaucracy attempted to service its international debt, the working class
was in motion with strikes and seizures of workplaces...and the result was a
victory for counterrevolution.  I don't then see how the necessity for
revolution, precipitated by the same material circumstances can fail to
present itself.

dms



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