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View that Gorbachev has consistently misjudged the issues in both domestic and foreign policy.

Die Autoren sehen in M. Gorbacev nicht den genialen Politiker, sondern denjenigen, der maßgeblich für das Andauern der schweren Krise in der UdSSR verantwortlich ist. Diese Krise ist für sie nicht so sehr ein ökonomisches Phänomen, als eine Legitimitätskrise des sowjetischen Systems. Durch das Festhalten am leninistischen Avantgarde-Modell verhindert Gorbacev bis jetzt eine Lösung der Krise und damit auch den ökonomischen Wiederaufbau der UdSSR. (BIOst-Rsg)

It is argued that the concept of contradiction has lost explanatory value, its use in Marxist analysis tending to "oscillate between.pretentious & empty theoretical verbiage & ritual cliche, vague enough to cover almost anything.." In an attempt to rescue the concept & reestablish its utility for contemporary analyses of capitalism, Karl Marx's original theorizing is revisited in light of the ideas on contradiction expressed by Marxist historian G. E. M. de Ste. Croix (1981) in his work on class struggle in ancient Greece. Marx & Ste. Croix are compared in terms of their perspectives of contradiction between (1) the forces & relations of production, (2) the social character of production & private appropriation, & (3) private landownership & rational agriculture. Ste. Croix's objections to the application of contradiction to class relations are reviewed, & the idea that class relations under capitalism may be different than those in other systems is explored. The roles of market dependence & exchange relations in contradictory class relations are also reevaluated. Capitalist contradictions in the modern world are evidenced in two examples: ecological degradation & globalization. K. Hyatt Stewart

It is argued that the concept of contradiction has lost explanatory value, its use in Marxist analysis tending to "oscillate between.pretentious & empty theoretical verbiage & ritual cliche, vague enough to cover almost anything.." In an attempt to rescue the concept & reestablish its utility for contemporary analyses of capitalism, Karl Marx's original theorizing is revisited in light of the ideas on contradiction expressed by Marxist historian G. E. M. de Ste. Croix (1981) in his work on class struggle in ancient Greece. Marx & Ste. Croix are compared in terms of their perspectives of contradiction between (1) the forces & relations of production, (2) the social character of production & private appropriation, & (3) private landownership & rational agriculture. Ste. Croix's objections to the application of contradiction to class relations are reviewed, & the idea that class relations under capitalism may be different than those in other systems is explored. The roles of market dependence & exchange relations in contradictory class relations are also reevaluated. Capitalist contradictions in the modern world are evidenced in two examples: ecological degradation & globalization. K. Hyatt Stewart

Die #ASA2022 Conference ist vorbei. Es waren aufregende und erkenntnisreiche Tage. Die vielen neuen Bekanntschaften und Eindrücke müssen noch sortiert werden und die letzten Tage voller Kontraste und Gegensätze hallen weiter nach. Ich werde die Tagung und die großartigen Menschen, von denen ich lernen konnte und mit denen ich diskutieren durfte, noch lange in guter … "Contrasts and Contradictions" weiterlesen