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  1. 💯 👉"Critics of socialism argue that it is a cop-out to say that the USSR was not socialist. But it seems clear that in practical terms, those running the system were trying to beat capitalism at its own game. They were not only imprisoned in a competitive logic but also bound by its limited horizons.

    Of course, this does not tell us what the Soviet economic system was. To pose that question, as some did in the USSR, was to step outside the ruling order and to invite retribution. The job of the economists that Feygin discusses was to help the system work better.

    Yet even some of those who were at the center of these “insider” debates could not help wondering exactly what the USSR was. Feygin in particular instances Yakov Kronrod, who spent four decades or more trying to think not only about reform but also about value relations and the question of alienation and exploitation in the Soviet system (David Mandel’s book on Konrod, Democracy, Plan, and Market, is not cited, however).

    In the event, the USSR and the wider Soviet-led bloc collapsed, becoming the “ruin” of Feygin’s title. It failed to catch up with (let alone overtake) the West, and it failed to satisfy the aspirations of its own population. The idea of socialism from above, directed by a plan, has not really recovered. When we think, therefore, of going beyond capitalism, we must think about different ends as well as different means.

    A bottom-up, participative system might well be messy in different ways, but it would have to engage people. In the USSR, Soviet workers were never the knowing agents of their own fate. They figured only as a constraint..." 👈💯

    jacobin.com/2025/11/soviet-eco

    #SovietUnion #USSR #Socialism #Capitalism #StateCapitalism #EconomicDemocracy #Gorbatchev #Perestroika

  2. 💯 👉"Critics of socialism argue that it is a cop-out to say that the USSR was not socialist. But it seems clear that in practical terms, those running the system were trying to beat capitalism at its own game. They were not only imprisoned in a competitive logic but also bound by its limited horizons.

    Of course, this does not tell us what the Soviet economic system was. To pose that question, as some did in the USSR, was to step outside the ruling order and to invite retribution. The job of the economists that Feygin discusses was to help the system work better.

    Yet even some of those who were at the center of these “insider” debates could not help wondering exactly what the USSR was. Feygin in particular instances Yakov Kronrod, who spent four decades or more trying to think not only about reform but also about value relations and the question of alienation and exploitation in the Soviet system (David Mandel’s book on Konrod, Democracy, Plan, and Market, is not cited, however).

    In the event, the USSR and the wider Soviet-led bloc collapsed, becoming the “ruin” of Feygin’s title. It failed to catch up with (let alone overtake) the West, and it failed to satisfy the aspirations of its own population. The idea of socialism from above, directed by a plan, has not really recovered. When we think, therefore, of going beyond capitalism, we must think about different ends as well as different means.

    A bottom-up, participative system might well be messy in different ways, but it would have to engage people. In the USSR, Soviet workers were never the knowing agents of their own fate. They figured only as a constraint..." 👈💯

    jacobin.com/2025/11/soviet-eco

    #SovietUnion #USSR #Socialism #Capitalism #StateCapitalism #EconomicDemocracy #Gorbatchev #Perestroika

  3. 💯 👉"Critics of socialism argue that it is a cop-out to say that the USSR was not socialist. But it seems clear that in practical terms, those running the system were trying to beat capitalism at its own game. They were not only imprisoned in a competitive logic but also bound by its limited horizons.

    Of course, this does not tell us what the Soviet economic system was. To pose that question, as some did in the USSR, was to step outside the ruling order and to invite retribution. The job of the economists that Feygin discusses was to help the system work better.

    Yet even some of those who were at the center of these “insider” debates could not help wondering exactly what the USSR was. Feygin in particular instances Yakov Kronrod, who spent four decades or more trying to think not only about reform but also about value relations and the question of alienation and exploitation in the Soviet system (David Mandel’s book on Konrod, Democracy, Plan, and Market, is not cited, however).

    In the event, the USSR and the wider Soviet-led bloc collapsed, becoming the “ruin” of Feygin’s title. It failed to catch up with (let alone overtake) the West, and it failed to satisfy the aspirations of its own population. The idea of socialism from above, directed by a plan, has not really recovered. When we think, therefore, of going beyond capitalism, we must think about different ends as well as different means.

    A bottom-up, participative system might well be messy in different ways, but it would have to engage people. In the USSR, Soviet workers were never the knowing agents of their own fate. They figured only as a constraint..." 👈💯

    jacobin.com/2025/11/soviet-eco

    #SovietUnion #USSR #Socialism #Capitalism #StateCapitalism #EconomicDemocracy #Gorbatchev #Perestroika

  4. 💯 👉"Critics of socialism argue that it is a cop-out to say that the USSR was not socialist. But it seems clear that in practical terms, those running the system were trying to beat capitalism at its own game. They were not only imprisoned in a competitive logic but also bound by its limited horizons.

    Of course, this does not tell us what the Soviet economic system was. To pose that question, as some did in the USSR, was to step outside the ruling order and to invite retribution. The job of the economists that Feygin discusses was to help the system work better.

    Yet even some of those who were at the center of these “insider” debates could not help wondering exactly what the USSR was. Feygin in particular instances Yakov Kronrod, who spent four decades or more trying to think not only about reform but also about value relations and the question of alienation and exploitation in the Soviet system (David Mandel’s book on Konrod, Democracy, Plan, and Market, is not cited, however).

    In the event, the USSR and the wider Soviet-led bloc collapsed, becoming the “ruin” of Feygin’s title. It failed to catch up with (let alone overtake) the West, and it failed to satisfy the aspirations of its own population. The idea of socialism from above, directed by a plan, has not really recovered. When we think, therefore, of going beyond capitalism, we must think about different ends as well as different means.

    A bottom-up, participative system might well be messy in different ways, but it would have to engage people. In the USSR, Soviet workers were never the knowing agents of their own fate. They figured only as a constraint..." 👈💯

    jacobin.com/2025/11/soviet-eco

    #SovietUnion #USSR #Socialism #Capitalism #StateCapitalism #EconomicDemocracy #Gorbatchev #Perestroika

  5. 💯 👉"Critics of socialism argue that it is a cop-out to say that the USSR was not socialist. But it seems clear that in practical terms, those running the system were trying to beat capitalism at its own game. They were not only imprisoned in a competitive logic but also bound by its limited horizons.

    Of course, this does not tell us what the Soviet economic system was. To pose that question, as some did in the USSR, was to step outside the ruling order and to invite retribution. The job of the economists that Feygin discusses was to help the system work better.

    Yet even some of those who were at the center of these “insider” debates could not help wondering exactly what the USSR was. Feygin in particular instances Yakov Kronrod, who spent four decades or more trying to think not only about reform but also about value relations and the question of alienation and exploitation in the Soviet system (David Mandel’s book on Konrod, Democracy, Plan, and Market, is not cited, however).

    In the event, the USSR and the wider Soviet-led bloc collapsed, becoming the “ruin” of Feygin’s title. It failed to catch up with (let alone overtake) the West, and it failed to satisfy the aspirations of its own population. The idea of socialism from above, directed by a plan, has not really recovered. When we think, therefore, of going beyond capitalism, we must think about different ends as well as different means.

    A bottom-up, participative system might well be messy in different ways, but it would have to engage people. In the USSR, Soviet workers were never the knowing agents of their own fate. They figured only as a constraint..." 👈💯

    jacobin.com/2025/11/soviet-eco

    #SovietUnion #USSR #Socialism #Capitalism #StateCapitalism #EconomicDemocracy #Gorbatchev #Perestroika

  6. A propos du « globe d’or » promis par Trump pour « défendre la paix » – par Georges Gastaud
    initiative-communiste.fr/artic
    28 mai 2025 – Par Georges Gastaud, auteur de « Mondialisation capitaliste et projet communiste », Delga 2022 Appelé « Globe d’or », le système de « défense » antimissiles promis par Trump aux Américains devrait coûter entre 250 et 1 000 milliards de dollars. Son objectif est d’accroître la supériorité militaire des USA sur la République populaire de Chine, sur la […]
    #Politique #3International #Articles #AntiImpérialisme #ArmesAtomiques #BombeAtomique #Chine #CourseAuxArmements #DéfenseAntimissile #DissuasionNucléaire #DomeDeFer #DonaldTrump #France #Géopolitique #GeorgesGastaud #GoldenDome #Gorbatchev #GuerreMondiale #GuerreNucléaire #Impérialisme #Russie #StarWar #Urss #Usa

  7. A propos du « globe d’or » promis par Trump pour « défendre la paix » – par Georges Gastaud
    initiative-communiste.fr/artic
    28 mai 2025 – Par Georges Gastaud, auteur de « Mondialisation capitaliste et projet communiste », Delga 2022 Appelé « Globe d’or », le système de « défense » antimissiles promis par Trump aux Américains devrait coûter entre 250 et 1 000 milliards de dollars. Son objectif est d’accroître la supériorité militaire des USA sur la République populaire de Chine, sur la […]
    #Politique #3International #Articles #AntiImpérialisme #ArmesAtomiques #BombeAtomique #Chine #CourseAuxArmements #DéfenseAntimissile #DissuasionNucléaire #DomeDeFer #DonaldTrump #France #Géopolitique #GeorgesGastaud #GoldenDome #Gorbatchev #GuerreMondiale #GuerreNucléaire #Impérialisme #Russie #StarWar #Urss #Usa

  8. A propos du « globe d’or » promis par Trump pour « défendre la paix » – par Georges Gastaud
    initiative-communiste.fr/artic
    28 mai 2025 – Par Georges Gastaud, auteur de « Mondialisation capitaliste et projet communiste », Delga 2022 Appelé « Globe d’or », le système de « défense » antimissiles promis par Trump aux Américains devrait coûter entre 250 et 1 000 milliards de dollars. Son objectif est d’accroître la supériorité militaire des USA sur la République populaire de Chine, sur la […]
    #Politique #3International #Articles #AntiImpérialisme #ArmesAtomiques #BombeAtomique #Chine #CourseAuxArmements #DéfenseAntimissile #DissuasionNucléaire #DomeDeFer #DonaldTrump #France #Géopolitique #GeorgesGastaud #GoldenDome #Gorbatchev #GuerreMondiale #GuerreNucléaire #Impérialisme #Russie #StarWar #Urss #Usa

  9. A propos du « globe d’or » promis par Trump pour « défendre la paix » – par Georges Gastaud
    initiative-communiste.fr/artic
    28 mai 2025 – Par Georges Gastaud, auteur de « Mondialisation capitaliste et projet communiste », Delga 2022 Appelé « Globe d’or », le système de « défense » antimissiles promis par Trump aux Américains devrait coûter entre 250 et 1 000 milliards de dollars. Son objectif est d’accroître la supériorité militaire des USA sur la République populaire de Chine, sur la […]
    #Politique #3International #Articles #AntiImpérialisme #ArmesAtomiques #BombeAtomique #Chine #CourseAuxArmements #DéfenseAntimissile #DissuasionNucléaire #DomeDeFer #DonaldTrump #France #Géopolitique #GeorgesGastaud #GoldenDome #Gorbatchev #GuerreMondiale #GuerreNucléaire #Impérialisme #Russie #StarWar #Urss #Usa

  10. A propos du « globe d’or » promis par Trump pour « défendre la paix » – par Georges Gastaud
    initiative-communiste.fr/artic
    28 mai 2025 – Par Georges Gastaud, auteur de « Mondialisation capitaliste et projet communiste », Delga 2022 Appelé « Globe d’or », le système de « défense » antimissiles promis par Trump aux Américains devrait coûter entre 250 et 1 000 milliards de dollars. Son objectif est d’accroître la supériorité militaire des USA sur la République populaire de Chine, sur la […]
    #Politique #3International #Articles #AntiImpérialisme #ArmesAtomiques #BombeAtomique #Chine #CourseAuxArmements #DéfenseAntimissile #DissuasionNucléaire #DomeDeFer #DonaldTrump #France #Géopolitique #GeorgesGastaud #GoldenDome #Gorbatchev #GuerreMondiale #GuerreNucléaire #Impérialisme #Russie #StarWar #Urss #Usa

  11. @Teri_Kanefield

    (3/3)

    ...#Darwin and #Gorbatchev said the same thing:
    adapt or perish.

    We all know how it went down for the #Roman Republic, but they even had the #TarpeianRock for cases of high treason.

    It is quite likely essential to pay more heed to history.
    Time is up.2)

    No, don't lock him up. He can and just might still be president. #TarpeianRock, if guilty.

    This is not a drill.

    2)
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1101

  12. @Teri_Kanefield

    (3/3)

    ...#Darwin and #Gorbatchev said the same thing:
    adapt or perish.

    We all know how it went down for the #Roman Republic, but they even had the #TarpeianRock for cases of high treason.

    It is quite likely essential to pay more heed to history.
    Time is up.2)

    No, don't lock him up. He can and just might still be president. #TarpeianRock, if guilty.

    This is not a drill.

    2)
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1101

  13. @Teri_Kanefield

    (3/3)

    ...#Darwin and #Gorbatchev said the same thing:
    adapt or perish.

    We all know how it went down for the #Roman Republic, but they even had the #TarpeianRock for cases of high treason.

    It is quite likely essential to pay more heed to history.
    Time is up.2)

    No, don't lock him up. He can and just might still be president. #TarpeianRock, if guilty.

    This is not a drill.

    2)
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1101

  14. @Teri_Kanefield

    (3/3)

    ...#Darwin and #Gorbatchev said the same thing:
    adapt or perish.

    We all know how it went down for the #Roman Republic, but they even had the #TarpeianRock for cases of high treason.

    It is quite likely essential to pay more heed to history.
    Time is up.2)

    No, don't lock him up. He can and just might still be president. #TarpeianRock, if guilty.

    This is not a drill.

    2)
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1101

  15. @Teri_Kanefield

    (3/3)

    ...#Darwin and #Gorbatchev said the same thing:
    adapt or perish.

    We all know how it went down for the #Roman Republic, but they even had the #TarpeianRock for cases of high treason.

    It is quite likely essential to pay more heed to history.
    Time is up.2)

    No, don't lock him up. He can and just might still be president. #TarpeianRock, if guilty.

    This is not a drill.

    2)
    mastodon.social/@HistoPol/1101

  16. @darwinwoodka @Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

    Even so, the plight of the lower class(es) was only significantly diminished during the #Gorbatchev revolution (#Glasnost and #Perestroika):

    #TheEconomist Podcasts: Next Year in #Moscow 4: Hostages

    i.sonnet.fm/4nkFsDC9rnNzqANp8

    (I assume you are equating aristocrats with oligarchs during the #Tsarist Empire when you say "always"?)

  17. @darwinwoodka @Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

    Even so, the plight of the lower class(es) was only significantly diminished during the #Gorbatchev revolution (#Glasnost and #Perestroika):

    #TheEconomist Podcasts: Next Year in #Moscow 4: Hostages

    i.sonnet.fm/4nkFsDC9rnNzqANp8

    (I assume you are equating aristocrats with oligarchs during the #Tsarist Empire when you say "always"?)

  18. @darwinwoodka @Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

    Even so, the plight of the lower class(es) was only significantly diminished during the #Gorbatchev revolution (#Glasnost and #Perestroika):

    #TheEconomist Podcasts: Next Year in #Moscow 4: Hostages

    i.sonnet.fm/4nkFsDC9rnNzqANp8

    (I assume you are equating aristocrats with oligarchs during the #Tsarist Empire when you say "always"?)

  19. @darwinwoodka @Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

    Even so, the plight of the lower class(es) was only significantly diminished during the #Gorbatchev revolution (#Glasnost and #Perestroika):

    #TheEconomist Podcasts: Next Year in #Moscow 4: Hostages

    i.sonnet.fm/4nkFsDC9rnNzqANp8

    (I assume you are equating aristocrats with oligarchs during the #Tsarist Empire when you say "always"?)

  20. @darwinwoodka @Jeramee @Renegade_GDI @RadicalGraffiti

    Even so, the plight of the lower class(es) was only significantly diminished during the #Gorbatchev revolution (#Glasnost and #Perestroika):

    #TheEconomist Podcasts: Next Year in #Moscow 4: Hostages

    i.sonnet.fm/4nkFsDC9rnNzqANp8

    (I assume you are equating aristocrats with oligarchs during the #Tsarist Empire when you say "always"?)

  21. È morto Gorbacëv. E a dimostrazione di quanto siano scemi i social, non è nemmeno nei trending topic.

    #gorbaciov #gorbacev #gorbachev #gorbatchev #gorbacëv

  22. Gorbachev was a piece of shit not because he managed to destroy USSR, but despite of that. Hope he will be in the same section of hell where his friends Thatcher and Reagan are. #USSR #Gorbatchev #WeCelebrateWhenTheyDie

  23. #Europe | Gorbatchev, le dernier dirigeant de l’Union soviétique est mort

    Mikhaïl Sergueïvitch #Gorbatchev est décédé mardi à 91 ans dans un hôpital de Moscou. L’apparatchik communiste qui voulut sauver le système soviétique en fut finalement le fossoyeur. Dernier et seul président de l’Union soviétique, il avait finalement démissionné le 25 décembre 1991, ce qui avait entraîné la fin de l’#URSS et celle de sa carrière politique.

    mediapart.fr/journal/internati

  24. Recent events seem like a fitting occasion to revisit Naomi #Klein's #TheShockDoctrine, in particular Chapter 11: Bonfire of a young Democracy - #Russia chooses the "Pinochet Option" (pp. 218-245).

    In 1991 Mikhail #Gorbatchev envisioned the future of his country as a social democracy based on the Scandinavian model, "a socialist beacon for all mankind".

    The #USA, the #IMF and of course Milton #Friedman's Chicago Boys preferred a #Pinochet-style dictatorship.

    Well. They got it.