Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR (Russian: Экономические проблемы социализма в СССР,
The main topics discussed are the following:
- Character of Economic Laws Under Socialism
- Commodity Production Under Socialism
- The Law of Value Under Socialism
- Abolition of the Antithesis Between Town and Country, and Between Mental and Physical Labour, and Elimination of Distinctions Between Them
- Disintegration of the Single World Market and Deepening of the Crisis of the World Capitalist System
- Inevitability of Wars Between Capitalist Countries
- The Basic Economic Laws of Modern Capitalism and of Socialism
Stalin also insisted that wars between capitalist nations were still inevitable, a position that
Interpretations in China
Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR was immediately translated upon its release and became a foundational political economy text in the
During the first Zhengzhou Conference (November 2, 1958 to November 10, 1958), Mao Zedong, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, wrote a letter on November 9 suggesting that leading cadres at all levels carefully read Stalin's work.
Ironically, early
References
- ^ Pollock, Ethan (July 2001). "Conversations with Stalin on Questions of Political Economy" (PDF). Working Paper No. 13. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Retrieved 14 July 2023.
- ^ Evans 1993, p. 48.
- ^ Pollock 2006, p. 210.
- ^ Mommen 2011, pp. 203–213, "14. Writing a textbook".
- OCLC 1250021710.
- ISBN 9781736850084.
- ^ Ramana 1983.
- ^ McCarthy 1985, p. 142.
- ^ a b c d McCarthy 1985, p. 143.
Sources
- Evans, Alfred B. (1993). Soviet Marxism–Leninism: The Decline of an Ideology. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 9780275947637.
- McCarthy, Greg (1985). Brugger, Bill (ed.). Chinese Marxism in Flux, 1978–1984: Essays on Epistemology, Ideology, and Political Economy. M. E. Sharpe. ISBN 0873323238.
- Mommen, André (2011). Stalin's Economist: The Economic Contributions of Jenö Varga. Routledge. ISBN 9781136793455.
- Pollock, Ethan (2006). Stalin and the Soviet Science Wars. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691124674.
- Ramana, R. (June 1983). "Reviewed Work: China's Socialist Economy by Xue Muqiao". Social Scientist. 11 (6): 68–74. JSTOR 3516910.
External links
- Stalin, Joseph (1951). "Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR". Marxists Internet Archive. Retrieved 17 April 2020.