Hi, dear Comrade Bill. Some more words about the problem of economical relations and processes between capitalism and socialism and transition stage difficulties. The investments by world capitalism to socialist countries are nothing but a deception. Capitalism is based on greedness and exploitation. The hard capitalist currency is a good tool for that purpose. The only intention for these investments is to get more profit. The profit comes from the workers´ work and the natural resources of the target country in question. It is not a question only of the capitalist investments to the socialist countries but also to the underdeveloped areas of the world. These investments may at underdeveloped areas at first seem good - if economic "growth" can be beautiful, but later on they cause impoverishment. The debts must be paid back with interests. For instance, the Russians know this fact now. The SU was a wealthy country without foreign investments. Russia after the counter-revolution is an impoverishing area in spite of huge amount of dollars invested. Let us hope the Cubans realize it, too... before it is late. Yet there are technical possibilities to arrange the trade between socialist and capitalist economies. Special arrangements are necessary because the monetary systems do not fit. There have been good examples here in Finland. The Finnish capitalists produced big projects to the Soviet Union. The commercial values were settled by so called clearing rouble. Clearing currency is based on the real surplus value, not on speculations like the "hard" currencies. The basis of the trade was built on barter system. The houses and villages built by Finnish companies were paid by oil barrels, cars etc. It was Finland´s internal headache to transform the value of these goods back to the capitalist currency. Yet it worked... The workers of the SU were satisfied with the results. They were not exploited. When the projects were completed, there was no debt left. This was one historical phase. It was a good experiment anyway. In spite of the world´s terrible reactionary situation of today we can see that the international trade can be carried out without the aspect of capitalist greedness. >From a larger point of view... the free world trade in the future is possible in a positive sense. But at first the WTO and all the capitalist elements in the world must be totally destroyed. The world must be based politically on the regional level democracy and economically on the people´s ownership on means of production. This is the self-evident quideline. On the way to socialism it is, however, obviously necessary to make some temporary or regional concessions keeping the goal in mind. We have quite a lot of work to do... yet the necessity for socialism faces all the world. It is only a question of time. The world revolution is not a plain dream. It is a goal and it will come true - depending on ourselves. One problem is that the world revolution cannot take place at once. There are and will be different types of national or regional processes. In this transition stage we cannot avoid a situation where capitalist and socialist countries are neighbours and they have to go on living somehow. The barter system is one way to handle this kind of a difficulty. The barter arrangements are also the means to handle the socialist economy in the future. Comradely. Heikki __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________
