Re: naming that system

[Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know what Lebowitz means by the term, but I
think such definitions tend to leave out a very
important part of the Soviet system, which was the
blanket cradle-to-grave social security system and
from which it derived its legitimacy in the eyes of
the public. (Which, as far as I know, was mostly built
after Stalin -- there was unemployment under Stalin,
whereas it was illegal to be unemployed for more than
3 months under Brezhnev. Another good reason to junk
the term "Stalinist"! Or limit it to a certain
definite period.)

--- "michael a. lebowitz" <mlebowit@xxxxxx> wrote:

>
> How about the 'vanguard mode of production'?
> Cf. Lebowitz,  'Kornai and the Vanguard Mode of
> Production' in Cambridge
> Journal of Economics (May 2000).
>          8^)
>          michael
>
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