Re: [Marxism] If Marxism is a Science thenits Predictions ShouldMatter...

["rrubinelli" <rrubinelli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Comrade EOC's statement is more contortion than analysis; more hedging
than identification; more groping than insight.  The ability to not see
what is obvious is a signature human characteristic, as is the imagining
of things real that aren't there. Human yes, but not characteristics to
be embraced by Marxists.

The ability to NOT see a real revolution, to see the triumph of
counterrevolution ten years after revolution, ten years in which a new
class with a new relation to production with a new product with a new
form of aggrandizement springs up without even the slightest precursor
in the old society-- without seeing that new class performing an
essential, developing role within that old backward form, is a poor
excuse for hindsight.  I'm not talking about predictive abilities; I'm
talking about good old fashioned 20/20 hindsight.


To not see the real triumph of counterrevolution in fSU  in 1991-- to
consider what occurred as a "lateral move" is, in a word, weak.  No
matter how individuals of the former bureaucracy personally made out,
the bureaucracy as a whole was dispossessed; shattered, broken up. So
its "ownership" of the means of producton was eradicated-- but that
wasn't even ownership, it was administration, since the essence of
capitalist ownership  -- check yourself, essential Marxist term, taken
over from Hegel about to be used--- !ALIENABILITY! of property was never
conferred upon the bureaucracy, upon bureaucrats, did not exist, except
in transferring property as part of joint ventures with private,
international, capitalism.

The theory of  and practical analysis by state capitalism provides zippo
explanation as to why what happened in the fSU actually happened-- how
in fact a bourgeoisie was created, established, and empowered-- and most
importantly, the role of  international capital in this process.  It is
an undeniable fact that the empowerment of an actual bourgeoisie in
Russia did not, this time, as it could not last time, solely grow
organically from the elemental, internal contradictions of the fSU.
Only with the aid, input, invasion of international capital could such a
bourgeois class be empowered, could capitalism be restored.

rr
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> If Russia was a capitalist society of some form and the same people
> ruled before and afterwards then it wasn't a counterrevolution in the
> sense normally used, i.e. the suppression of the rising class by the
> ruling class in decline or the replacement of a higher level of social
> development by a lower one. What occurred was a change in the form of
> class rule - admittedly a relatively weak form of rule was replaced by
a
> more rabid one and the more or less complete fusion of economic and
> political power was replaced by a division of labour between the
> economic and the political elites, even if they are still intimately
> connected with each other. But this has also occurred in other
> developing countries that have never been classified as "socialist" by
> anybody.
>
> Einde O'Callaghan
>


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