Aki ORR replies to Louis Proyect
Louis Proyect reviews 2 books that put forward the view that
the collapse of the USSR does not imply a collapse of socialism and
marxist theory because the USSR was "State Capitalism" and not "Socialism".
This is an attempt to use a verbal smokescreen to hide a historical
disaster.
It hardly matters what label one sticks on the USSR - "State capitalism"
"Degenerated Workers State", "Bureaucratic capitalism", etc.
What matters is the FACT that in the USSR there was no private ownership
of the means of production and the government ran the entire economy.
Yet this system was rejected by the majority of its own population which
was conditioned for 3 generations, by intensive education and
propaganda,
to support and adore the system it finally rejected..
.
This rejection is the historical proof that nationalization of the means
of production
- and the theory advocating it - failed.
If Proyect (or the authors of the two works he reviews) have an
alternative to private
ownership of the means of pruduction OTHER THAN nationalization of the
means of production,
let them state it explicitly.
sincerely
Aki ORR
