Re: capitalism, market, redistribution (fwd)

ed wrote:

>I don't think so.  In a recent posting I proposed that the Soviet Union
>was
>not a communist society, but one which could be described as extreme
>capitalism.

ed, there is a conceptual problem with your definition of "extreme
capitalism". if soviet union was extremely capitalist, who was
"moderately capitalist" then?

>From the end of the New Economic Policy in  the late 1920s
>until the failed reforms of the 1980s, the principal objective of the
>Soviet
>State was to industrialize;

what you are saying is not unique to Soviet Union. every country in the
world aimed to industrialize at some point in history. Look at the New
Deal policy in the United States, look at the British factory acts when
Marx was writing, look at Colbert's economic policies in France during 
the early stages of capitalism!! all aimed to industrialize but for
different purposes. industrilization can be an instrument of economic
growth; it does not charecterize "extereme capitalism", "less
capitalism","moderate capitalism" , "socialism" or whatever.

Mine