>Actually this was a small part of the market socialists agenda, kind of
>the wrapping of a package whose cantents (and substance) was (much) more
>concerned with the agenda of rationlizing the subjection of public owned
>enterprises (or cooperatives) in socialist countries to market competition
>in a bid to increase productivity of those enterprises.
>Steve
Honestly, I am not sure whether the term market socialism applies to China
all that well. State owned enterprises, which existed side-by-side in
NEP-like fashion with the more dynamic and profitable private enterprises
on the seaboard, hardly seemed expressive of the sort of ideology found in
classic market socialism. I think that "market socialism" was just a slogan
for a NEP type economy. Of course, unlike the Soviet CP in the 1920s, this
was seen as a step toward capitalism rather than a temporary measure to
strengthen socialism.
Louis Proyect
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