Die Neue Zeit
28th January 2012, 05:26
Is "state-capitalist monopoly which is made to serve the interests of the whole people" in food production (http://www.revleft.com/vb/national-democratization-industrial-t143922/index.html), though operating on the basis of market monetary prices, necessary, both from the perspective of real transition and immediate but radical reform?
No past regime claiming to have socially revolutionary aims went far enough in trying to transform food production relations in the countryside, from the continued existence of private farms in most of Eastern Europe to the compromise that was the kolkhoz ("collective farm") to the evasion of economic development questions that came with full-fledged agricultural communes (more Mao than kibbutzim).
No past regime claiming to have socially revolutionary aims went far enough in trying to transform food production relations in the countryside, from the continued existence of private farms in most of Eastern Europe to the compromise that was the kolkhoz ("collective farm") to the evasion of economic development questions that came with full-fledged agricultural communes (more Mao than kibbutzim).