[Marxism] Resnick and Wollf

[Bill Lynch <billlynch970@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Austin wrote:
> http://www.uwgb.edu/austina/Bibliography/Austin09.pdf
>
> I have had requests for this so I thought I would make it available to
> you.
Thanks for posting the review. I do find it interesting that most of the
debate posits "state capitalist" versus some kind of bureaucratic
deformation of a socialist base and ignore what I consider still the
definitive analysis rooted in Marx's own analysis of surplus value:
Cornelius Castoriadis's Socialisme ou Barbarie-era analysis, in
particular "The Relations of Production in Russia" in volume one of his
collected works (not translated before that, however, to my knowledge).
Perhaps because it did not become part of any socialist party, and
because most members went post-Marxist or postmodern (Lyotard), it
receives less press. Indeed, it influenced state capitalist theories
(though it is not a state capitalist view), as well as more directly the
Johnson-Forest tendency in the U.S. that included Dunayevskaya, whom you
do cite, as well as assorted "autonomist" Marxists in Italy and America.
(I'm about half way through Steve Wright's _Storming Heaven: Class
Composition and Struggle in Italian Autonomist Marxism_, which is well
worth reading if only to disabuse us from thinking that Negri is
generally representative of this tendency, and makes the interesting
suggestion that the class struggle in this context set the stage for
today's anti-globalization movement.) Well, in any event, I hope I
haven't relaunched the banned USSR discussion...


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