>>Oh yes! It's called state capitalism, for want of a better
>>term. This is not rocket science: the state owns the banks;
>>the bureaucrats control the state; the bureaucrats are a
>>bureaucratic capitalist class. Capish?
>
>OK, here's your only point in the whole post.
>I did not consider that because I think that if there is only one
capitalist (the
>state) who has nearly total power over society, the incentives for
>accumulations are inexistent or of a different nature (I answered to your
linking
>of money and accumulation). Besides, state capitalist accumulation can of
>course happen without money.
The other point that needs to be made here--as the discussion begins to
drift--is how this highly sectarian bit of trotskyism was inserted. Lenin
refered to state capitalism as a stage in the construction of socialism
under specific historical circumstances, but the bit about bureaucrats
becoming a class (an indefensible distortion of the marxian concept of
class) is "not rocket science" for good reason--it is a grotesque
oversimplification for a polemical purpose. This is from the standard
Fourth International playbook, where SC has become shorthand for a very
flaky premise upon which an essentially counter-revolutionary argument is
constructed. The response to this polemical cookie points at just one of
the logical fallacies with the whole construct.
"If insurrection is an art, its main content is to know how to give the
struggle the form appropriate to the political situation."
-Vo Nguyen Giap
"Rather than seeking comparabilities in statistical terms among what are
all too often superficial features of different situations, comparabilities
must be sought at the level of determinate mechanisms, at the level of
processes that are generally hidden from easy view."
-Eleanor Burke Leacock
"Every day one has to struggle that this love to a living humanity
transform itself into concrete acts, in acts that serve as examples, as
motivation."
-Ernesto "Che" Guevara
"Mask no difficulties."
-Amilcar Cabral
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