I owe the context for a Sweezy quote from _The Present as History_...
The publication in 1952 of Stalin's _Economic Problems of Socialism in the
USSR_ would make possible today a more satisfactory reply to Mr. Kazahaya
on the law of value under socialism. Briefly, Stalin's position is that
the law of value still continues to operate under socialism to the extent
that certain features of capitalism, particularly the operation of the
price mechanism in the agricultural sector of the economy, have not yet
been eliminated. Under full communism, on the other hand, the law of value
will no longer apply. In the light of this explanation, which seems to me
entirely sound, I should like to amend the statement which Mr. Kazahaya
criticizes, by substituting "communist" for "socialist" and "communism"
for "socialism." It would then read as follows: "In the economics of a
communist society the theory of planning should hold the same basic
position as the theory of value in the economics of a capitalist society.
Value and planning are as much opposed, adn for the same reasons, as
capitalism and communism." This conveys my meaning more accurately than
the original wording and is, I think entirely in accord with Stalin's view...