starkillerfish

im sure there are support groups in spain if you have a medical need. you could also apply for state assistance.

yup, to WW2 on the soviet side

From ISKRA books. They have free epubs

its exactly those!

very cool, i got stalins collected works on my ereader recently

what have you been reading on the mini ereader?

The stageist position was anti working class. They (Mensheviks and the like) were calling on the working class to stand down and let the bourgeoisie exploit them. The Bolsheviks recognized that to intentionally surrender the revolution would be to betray the working classes.

This is what I hear from Palestinian solidarity orgs

the criticism ive seen more is: he should do policies that he can actually do (eg. ban zionist funding / investment), instead of posturing about policies he cannot do

What you’re asking is essentially economic governance. Who plans the economy?

In a capitalist state, these are the CEOs, boards of directors and the like who plan production.

In a socialist society, there are options.

The early Soviet Union experimented with what is usually called syndicalism (from French word for trade union: syndicat). Meaning that economic planning is done by trade unions. The problem there is that industries had a hard time coordinating during times of civil war.

This is why USSR moved to state economic planning to create the broadest possible coordination.

As an aside, some capitalist countries also heavily relied on the state for planning (I think it’s called dirigisme?). In a socialist country the state is controlled by the working class, so production aims to improve human wellbeing first, rather the profitability of industry.

In Yugoslavia, we saw a form of market socialism. The economic planning was done on the scale of individual worker cooperatives, who participated in market relations with each other.

In China and other current AES states we see an economy broadly planned by the state, but still relying on private sector for some industries (also similar to early Soviet NEP).

You asked for a chart but I think that’s hard to do (and maybe even counterproductive) because there are no clear divisions between these forms of planning. Usually it’s a mix of things, we just look at the dominant form. Also charts often end up reinforcing "ideology supermarket" attitude. It’s good to force oneself to look at each countries conditions individually. As materialists, we should evaluate each economic model based on its usefulness for the specific time and place.

Ask, who plans production? Which class participates in this planning? Etc.

Hope it was helpful and let me know if you want to follow up on anything!

Like AES education in general, it’s good to put things in context. It also depends heavily on who are you talking to. Leftcoms / trots? Anarchists? Liberals? MLs? My approach would be different with everyone.

An approach that a few revisionist (in a good way) sovietologists use is talking about the class issues and struggles of early Soviet Russia. As well as the context of being isolated on the international stage. In this way you can show that the hardships of that time were caused by existing conditions, not materialized by one man. The problem that I’ve found with this approach is that often you end up giving a lecture on the history of Soviet Union.

If you would like more specifics let me know!

(Western) Europe is part of the imperial core