Louis Proyect
2014-10-19 14:39:13 UTC
In fact, there have never been capitalist societies, even mid-Victorian
Britain or the United States today, where all economic relations have
been market determined. In some cases this has been because of the
retention of pre-capitalist relations such as led to the reassertion of
?moral economy? against ?political economy,? of the ?just price? against
the ?market price,? which occurred in England and Lowland Scotland as
late as the end of the eighteenth century. (Indeed, if capitalist social
relations of production were already in place by or before the English
Civil War, then what were these great social struggles actually about?)
But more commonly it has been the imposition of public or state
provision and regulation by capitalist states. In other words, ?pure?
capitalist social property relations have never been completely dominant
anywhere, nor?unless socialists completely fail in their objectives?will
they ever be.
full: http://isreview.org/issue/91/there-anything-defend-political-marxism
Britain or the United States today, where all economic relations have
been market determined. In some cases this has been because of the
retention of pre-capitalist relations such as led to the reassertion of
?moral economy? against ?political economy,? of the ?just price? against
the ?market price,? which occurred in England and Lowland Scotland as
late as the end of the eighteenth century. (Indeed, if capitalist social
relations of production were already in place by or before the English
Civil War, then what were these great social struggles actually about?)
But more commonly it has been the imposition of public or state
provision and regulation by capitalist states. In other words, ?pure?
capitalist social property relations have never been completely dominant
anywhere, nor?unless socialists completely fail in their objectives?will
they ever be.
full: http://isreview.org/issue/91/there-anything-defend-political-marxism