Anyone read this book? "Workers' Control and Socialist Democracy: the Soviet Experience, " (Verso, 1982), by Carmen Sirianni??? Or the Maurice Brinton pamphlet on the Soviets??? Michael Pugliese
>--- Original Message --- >From: "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Date: 4/29/02 3:07:58 PM > >You're right. I don't want to argue about this at this point. The key is >when the workers' & peasants' & soldiers' soviets lost political power to >the CPSU, so that decisions were made from above rather than democratically. >I'll leave the dating of that shift to another discussion. > >Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Hari Kumar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 3:38 PM >> To: pen-l >> Subject: [PEN-L:25528] Response to JD re 1956 >> >> >> JD cites HK: " Post 1956 the USSR was a neo-social-imperialist state," >> & asks: >> "why _only_ post 1956?? JD" >> REPLY: >> Clearly we are not going to agree on the nature fo the state apparatus >> prior to the death of Stalin - I see no point in discussing it unless >> you wish to be quite specific please. Following 1956, however the >> capture fo state power by Khruschev-ite was complete. From >> this stage on - we would probably not disagree on what that made the class > >> relation fo the USSR with other nations. Toe make the point explicit >> however, and to trace the steps: The Khruschev-ite now re-structured the >> economic system of renumeration in the USSR to re-enshrine profit - using >the >> notion of managerial bonuses. This was first promulgate during Stalin's >> lifetime - & fought off by Stalin. (See the Vosonosensky Affair in the >below >> reference). After the death of JVS, the way was clear for a un-impeded >> implementation of the "Lieberman" Reforms. >> Bill Bland before his death used USSr documents to trace the steps way >> back in 1980. Alliance placed this on the web, until Yahoo >> shut us down. >> It is now at this web-site below: >> http://www.oneparty.co.uk/html/book/ussrindex.html >> >> > >
