I wonder if the right answer couldn’t be “both hypotheses are right ”. That is: Stalin’s economic model was at first very effective: so effective that it enabled the most impressive economic catching up in the world history; but in the following phase the same model wasn’t apt to guarantee anymore an adequate growth (Kalecki hinted at possible reasons for this), so the return on investment became lower and lower. But Kruschev wasn’t apt to substitute anything meaningful to that model: on the contrary, the reforms made things worse. VG
Inviato da iPhone > Il giorno 29 mar 2021, alle ore 20:50, Roger Kulp > <[email protected]> ha scritto: > > Michael Meeropol, > The criticisms you ,and others, raise about the Soviet Union, gets us into a > debate among leftists, that may never be resolved. That being, were the seeds > of the failures of the Soviet Union sown during the Stalin years, or were > they largely the result of the reforms enacted under Krushchev, and continued > under Breshnev. I am firmly in the latter camp, and it would take an awful > lot to change my mind. > > BTW, The Kulaks had it coming. > _._,_._,_ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#7606): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/7606 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/81598391/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
