Kiev Communard

"So, despite their official Stalinism, there is something interesting to them - unlike the KKE's stale orthodoxy."

Sometimes myths are too strong to break in the short term. Combining "official Stalinism" (like noting Stalin's logistical knack in the Great Patriotic War, denouncing Khrushchev's hare-brained sovnarkhozy and industrial-agricultural party bifurcation schemes, etc.) with more revolutionary praxis and educative sessions denouncing "Marxism-Leninism" (such as sovkhozization vs. Stalin's kolkhozization mistake, or Popular Front idiocy) might be the way to go in today's Russia. That's why I referred to, for example, upholding Stalin's group's expulsion of Trotsky from the party when the latter and his supporters organized their anti-"unity-in-action" stunt.

It's exactly like Lassalle and German Social Democracy from the tail end of the Anti-Socialist Laws until about a decade or so later.

What I was referring to in my jab at Labourism: http://cpgb.podbean.com/2011/06/07/blue-labour/

Not that one. The Fully Socialized Labour Market one, though the Minsky-Polanyi material is related too.

BTW, no thoughts on my Economics thread you read? It was my latest programmatic commentary.

Comrade Zanthorus referred me to that awhile back, and I still don't buy that. A lot of arguments there were based on really stretched premises.

"I would be glad to see a detailed exposition of your views on this subject."

Damn my briefness! Anyway, and very briefly, I don't see the Soviet Union from Stalin to Chernenko as any of those. It had generalized commodity production, but it was not a "degenerated workers state" (coordinator class calling the shots), "state capitalist" (for reasons already explained in that thread), "bureaucratic collectivist" (doesn't consider conflicts between bureaucrats proper and enterprise managers), or whatever.

Hey. We're looking for more players for the afgan forum game and wanted to invite you.

We've got 2 spots on the Central Committee open, head of the Russian special forces, liberal opposition party, general's in the army and air force commanders. If we had more players the action would really pick up, cause its kinda dull atm.

even if you dont want to play could you spread the word? have people contact blackend marxist.

Sorry for the long Reply. Though interesting... Is there any reason for the decline of the Radical left in Ukraine? And does this have any correlation with the collapse of the Soviet Union? And, thirdly, has the economy of Ukraine advanced since the fall of the USSR, or declined?