I usually like comrade Fuwa Tetsuzo. But the statement below is one of those which I do not share. Study for example the situation and the role of women in soviet society and compare it with any comparable capitalist society. When I visited some years ago Russia I attended a lecture on the situation of women in contemporary Russia by a professor of sociology. She said during the time of Stalin we experienced a dictatorial regime but it was also the time in which women enjoyed more freedom than before. There must be a reason that makes a liberal professor to say that. Perhaps there is a member on the list who may inform us about this.
"Several decades later, when the Soviet Union was under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev, the "introduction of a market economy" was much discussed. But during the preceding 60 years the Soviet Union completely changed itself. Substantial changes took place in the socio-economic system of the Soviet Union during and after Stalin's era. In effect, Soviet society had already become a system in which socialism or even a direction toward socialism was non-existent." ----- Dogan Göcmen (http://dogangocmen.wordpress.com/) Author of The Adam Smith Problem: Reconciling Human Nature and Society in The Theory of Moral Sentiments and Wealth of Nations, I. B. Tauris, London&New York 2007 ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: Marxism@lists.econ.utah.edu Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
