Re: naming that system

[Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@xxxxxxxxx>]

Michael,

You know, I didn't realize that you were the same
Lebowitz (I feel stupid). I'll look at the article.

BTW the closest thing to a successful socialist
society that matches what Western leftists usually
mean by the term is Cuba. How does Cuba's economic
system compare to that of the USSR? (Obviously it's a
much smaller and much less complicated country.)

> Take a look at the article, Chris (but you'll have
> to wait two years for
> the more developed elaboration in my repeatedly
> promised 'Studies in the
> Development of Communism: the socialist economy and
> the vanguard mode of
> production'). Basically, the idea is that the
> essential characteristics of
> the dominant productive relation and the form of
> central planning in the
> USSR (and its imitators) were derived from the
> relations within the
> vanguard party and its role with respect to the
> masses (none of which
> precludes there being a basis for the underlying
> populations to look upon
> the system as 'self-evident natural law').
>          in solidarity,
>           michael
> Michael A. Lebowitz
> Professor Emeritus
> Economics Department
> Simon Fraser University
> Burnaby, B.C., Canada V5A 1S6
>
> Currently based in Venezuela. Can be reached at
> Residencias Anauco Suites
> Departamento 601
> Parque Central, Zona Postal 1010, Oficina 1
> Caracas, Venezuela
> (58-212) 573-4111
> fax: (58-212) 573-7724
>





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