RasTheDestroyer
14th July 2010, 19:16
I am a few pages into Mao Zedong's book 'A Critique of Soviet Economics' and one of the texts that Mao uses in his analysis of the correct methods for socialist development in the transition to communism is Stalin's 'Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR'. I will eventually get to reading it, but in the meantime, would anyone be able to either direct me to a summary of its basic principles or outline them for me?
Some information about the text is presented in the book. The author of the introduction of the book indicates that Mao's reading of the book was an effort to correct what he perceived as the Soviet model's mistakes under Stalin (the failure to promote the mass-line, and rapidly developing the social productive forces while leaving the productive relations unchanged) and to preserve its 'positive aspects' (the defense of the survival of the commodity form during the socialist stages of development). Please let me know if that is accurate.
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Some information about the text is presented in the book. The author of the introduction of the book indicates that Mao's reading of the book was an effort to correct what he perceived as the Soviet model's mistakes under Stalin (the failure to promote the mass-line, and rapidly developing the social productive forces while leaving the productive relations unchanged) and to preserve its 'positive aspects' (the defense of the survival of the commodity form during the socialist stages of development). Please let me know if that is accurate.
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