Socialist Economy Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/marxism/socialist-economy/ MARXIST ESSAYS AND COMMENTARY Sun, 25 Apr 2021 18:54:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.15 https://i0.wp.com/johnriddell.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/cropped-John-Riddell-Icon-Final-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Socialist Economy Archives - John Riddell https://johnriddell.com/category/marxism/socialist-economy/ 32 32 22825446 Michael Lebowitz Dissects the Failure of Soviet ‘Socialism’ https://johnriddell.com/2015/05/19/dissecting-the-failure-of-soviet-socialism/ https://johnriddell.com/2015/05/19/dissecting-the-failure-of-soviet-socialism/#comments Tue, 19 May 2015 16:18:24 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=2307 Review by John Riddell of The Contradictions of “Real Socialism”: The Conductor and the Conducted, by Michael A. Lebowitz, New York: Monthly Review 2012. In current discussions of twenty-first century socialism, the work of Michael Lebowitz has a unique merit: it is rooted in the experience of Cuba and Venezuela, where efforts in recent decades […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2015/05/19/dissecting-the-failure-of-soviet-socialism/feed/ 5 2307 Trotsky on the role of workers’ democracy and markets in socialist planning https://johnriddell.com/2015/05/18/trotsky-on-the-role-of-workers-democracy-and-markets-in-socialist-planning/ https://johnriddell.com/2015/05/18/trotsky-on-the-role-of-workers-democracy-and-markets-in-socialist-planning/#comments Mon, 18 May 2015 16:21:29 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=2313 Introductory note by John Riddell: The following two excerpts from articles by Leon Trotsky present his thoughts on the state of the Soviet economy in 1932–3, at the close of a five-year campaign of forced-pace industrialization. Trotsky’s remarks on planning, markets, bureaucracy, and rank-and-file democracy are highly relevant to all twenty-first century efforts to launch […]

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]]> https://johnriddell.com/2015/05/18/trotsky-on-the-role-of-workers-democracy-and-markets-in-socialist-planning/feed/ 1 2313 Socialist planning and the bureaucratic economy https://johnriddell.com/2015/05/17/socialist-planning-and-the-bureaucratic-economy/ https://johnriddell.com/2015/05/17/socialist-planning-and-the-bureaucratic-economy/#comments Sun, 17 May 2015 16:16:56 +0000 https://johnriddell.com/?p=2316 By John Riddell. The following previously unpublished position paper, pulled from my archives, was written in 1992. I am posting it in conjunction with my review of Michael Lebowitz’s Contradictions of ‘Real Socialism’. My comments raised many of the themes found in Lebowitz’s writings of that time, of which I was then quite unaware. My […]

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