Thanks for the links to your work on Vietnam. Very helpful. Regarding the issue of golf courses and use/exchange value-- clearly Vietnam is not socialist, and I would not criticize Vietnam on the basis of "not yet being socialist," as that is an ahistorical criticism, one that could have been was raised against the fSU at its most revolutionary, its most "proletarian."
The critical questions are in Vietnam, as I think they are in China, as I think they were in the fSU, "what social relations of production are being enhanced, strengthened, promoted?" Which personification of those social relations-- workers or bourgeoisie-- are being strengthened? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Karadjis" <[email protected]> To: "David Schanoes" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 24, 2009 1:17 PM Subject: Re: [Marxism] Is this what Ho Chi Minh died for? ________________________________________________ YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
