robbo203

I responded to your post comrade

http://www.revleft.com/vb/capitalism...62#post2438162

I love your posts, you're very well versed in History and Marxism.

Hey Robbo,

You might be interested in the anti-Stalinist user group. There isn't too much going on there yet, but we plan on having critical serious analysis of Stalinism, Bolshevism, and Leninism in addition to that(most of us regard them as being the same, more or less). You have some interesting insights and they would certainly be appreciated there!

They got most of their income from the collective farms,and the farms were not built on exploitation.

So do please enlighten me - do you think these Soviet Millionaires gained their money and their wealth through their own efforts and hard work and how is this any different from western folklore concerning the myth of the "self made man"? Because if they did not gain their wealth from the exploitation of the Russian workers how else did they gain it? What you are saying could quite comfortably conform with sentiments expressed by the neoclassical economist, John Bates Clark, who opined that "the distribution of income [is] controlled by a natural law, and...this law, if it worked without friction, would give to every agent of production the amount of wealth which that agent creates....Free competition tends to give labor what labor creates, to capitalists what capital creates, and to entrepreneurs what the coordinating function creates

I read that article,and i must say it is far from the truth,the ''Soviet Millionaire'' did not gain their money and wealth trough exploitation of workers,and the way the state collective farms functioned is far from the old Kulak system.