Word: stalins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here Stalin & Co. came to pay dirt. The means of production under capitalism involves a contradiction between "productive forces" (the tools and the workers) and "productive relations" (the relations between capitalists and laborers). New tools or equipment make the old capitalist-labor relations obsolete. The new productive forces require "social ownership" (Communism) for their full expansion. Otherwise, there will be depressions, in which shoe-factory workers, as an example, will be out of work at the same time that they (and others) need shoes...
This is the so-called Primary Contradiction of Capitalism, and is the sockdolager of the Marxist argument. In the long run, as Stalin reasons, the depressions will come oftener & oftener, and thus Communism will have to take over. Under Communism, the shoe factories will work as long as people need shoes...
Such is the "scientific" certainty with which Stalin reasons that capitalism is inevitably...
...central contradiction of capitalism, which Marx elaborated in Das Kapital, gives birth to three other contradictions. They are all grist to Stalin's mill...
...first is the "class struggle." Under capitalism the main antagonists are the capitalists and the proletariat-the industrial workers. The other elements, such as the farmers and the middle class, fluctuate and drift. The proletariat, Stalin concludes, is the inevitable vehicle for revolution...