Soviet Union

[DaComm]

Could someone explain to me the social relations in the production process of Stalin's Sovet Union? Thankyou.

[revolution inaction]

this is quite good, although it doesn't only cover the ussr while stalin was in control

http://libcom.org/library/what-was-ussr-aufheben

[Blake's Baby]

Some of us believe that the working class in Russia was exploited by a state corporation known as 'The USSR', thus the relations of production in the Soviet Union were capitalist. Engels laid the groundwork for this understanding with his writing on the phenomenon of the joint-stock company and the end of the individual capitalist; he wrote of the 'collective capitalist' in this instance. Also, writing on parliament, how it came to embody 'the national capital'. These are necessary insights into realising that capitalism doesn't need a top-hatted cigar-smoking owner to be capitalism; what it needs is an exploited working class and another class taking the expropriated surplus labour, whether this is a class of private joint-stock capitalists or bureaucratic class of functionaries fulfilling the same purpose is not important.

Others disagree and I'm sure will be along shortly to give their opinions.