Historical Materialism

["Charles Brown" <CharlesB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

 Historical Materialism
by Davies, Daniel
04 February 2002 15:30 UTC




dd: (Stalin was of the
opinion that cybernetics was intrinsically bourgeois and beleived that plans
should be made on the basis of purely political-economy considerations, with
predictably disastrous consequences),

^^^^^^

CB: I know that it is dogma on these lists that Stalin could do no right, but what exactly is your evidence that the economic history of the Soviet Union in Stalin's time was not an extraordinary historic achievement ? I believe Russia was about 1/13 the size of the U.S. economically before the 1917 Revolution. Post WWII , despite the extraordinary destruction of the Nazi invasion, the USSR reached ½ the U.S. GDP/GNP. That means it grew faster than the U.S. in the Stalin period.