On Apr 24, 2013, at 11:23 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
it really doesn't matter what you call the mode of production that
characterized the old Soviet Union. The important thing is that it
was a class society.
Well, the New Soviet Union is pretty clearly capitalist. But its
state apparatus is pretty clearly the same as that of the Old Soviet
Union (even the President is a KGB type--as are the heads of most of
the "Republics"). So, judged by the Marxist theory of the state, the
Old Soviet Union was a capitalist state for the final 50+ years of its
existence.
On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 8:15 AM, Shane Mage <[email protected]>
wrote:
On Apr 24, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Jim Devine wrote:
I guess Marx and Engels were wrong, unless the Soviet Union was an
example of capitalism...
Which, of course, it was...
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64
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