Re: Economics and law

[Chris Doss <lookoverhere1@xxxxxxxxx>]

--- Charles Brown <cbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Yet I want to repeat here something I have alluded to
before. What the
fuck
good is a workers' revolution if workers can't take
their time on their
jobs, work somewhat at their own pace, remove some of
the toil from
their
labor ? Seems to me that this is one of the most
elementary democratic
features of a proletarian revolution. I have said
before that this runs
into
a very sharp and even determining contradiction in
that the SU was
under
deadly threat with all of world capitalism with its
rip roarin'
production
still under the lash, thus able to produce super
weapons. The slip shod
work
that resulted from some Soviet workers' being
irresponsible in the role
of
being more of their own supervisor is a related
contradiction resulting
from
making  truly more free labor. Ironically, it
demonstrates that there
was
significant DEMOCRACY , industrial democracy, in the
SU and more than
in the
U.S.  And industrial democracy is a factor in the
"index" of total
democracy
in a country.
---

Badmouthing me is what Michael Pugliese is for. Well,
I don't want to argue with any of what you said. I
certainly would have been quite happy in a Soviet
(Brezhnev-era) workplace. Just wanted to point out
that that system does have negatives. Whether ot not
they outweigh the positives is a matter of judgment.
For what it's worth, most people in Russia consider
the Brezhnev-era USSR to be the happiest time to be
alive in the country's history (the 700 or so years of
Russian history, in addition to the 70-odd years of
Soviet history).



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