socialism, Berlin Wall, and so on

Hi, about socialism or communism, we must remark that nobody knows what 
Marx 
thought communism should or would be. A few years before he died, he said 
that 
he had made just two discoveries: the origin of surplus-value and the fact 
that capitalism is not eternal. As for communism he just left some vague 
phrases about it being based in public property and workers' control.
The so-called real socialism, Stalinist socialism and so on also does not 
help 
us to understand what communismo should or would be. They were installed 
mostly in backward countries, in which accumulation was not entirely or 
mostly 
capitalist. As a matter of fact, they were rather pre-capitalist regimes, 
in 
which the State accumulated assets in order to invest by way of what Marx 
would have called primitive accumulation. There were many ways to do this: 
to 
reduce consommation to the minimum necessary to live and to work, slave 
labour, forced sparing, and so on. This kind of system permits a rapid 
development in conditions of stable technology, but it does not permit to 
develop technology. Even before Gorbachev, a Soviet economist asked in an 
article: "We may plan agriculture, we may plan industry, we may plan even 
free-wandering in holidays, but we cannot plan technological progress." One 
does never know which result an experiment will produce.
Technological progress is not planned in capitalism too, it is developped 
by 
way of competition, with bankruptcies, unemployment, lowering of wages, 
marginalisation and so on. What should be the solution? Planning 
technological 
progress must be global, we must have a world government that will regulate 
the fluxes of investments and of financial exchanges.
Thank you for your attention.
Renato Pompeu - Sao Paulo, Brazil