「社会主義経済学」の成立可能性について(下・後編)

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To understand socialism or communism as the authentic history of human society, it is essential to comprehensively examine problems that are specific to the period of transition from capitalism to socialism. The transitional period cannot be viewed only from the perspective of "political transformation." Rather, it is also important to examine problems that are specific to socio-economic transformation and to develop an outlook for their resolution. Serious studies of what the socio-economic transformation process in the transitional period looks like has just recently begun. On this subject, I have argued that in the transitional period, it is important to overcome the "economic coercion" that is peculiar to capitalism, as opposed to other social formations where society was ruled through the lever of extra-economic force. In particular, during the socio-economic transformation process, it is important to overcome the cyclical mechanism of the economy or the explosion of economic crisis at the macroscopic level, and also to fundamentally transform the organization of production and labor on the microscopic level to forms that are suited to one's own humanity. The Soviet Union failed in both respects, leaving behind grotesque ruins. Various significant theoretical weaknesses existed that led to this fatal failure. In the Soviet Union, most economists took it granted without any grounds that the "plan vs. market" scheme was correct. In their minds, markets functioned in an anarchical manner that rendered economic crises unavoidable. The logic of the process whereby markets lead ultimately to economic crisis was not fully examined, whereas the explosion of a crisis in capitalism is the end result of a complicated series of mechanisms. Anarchy in the markets per se does not necessarily generate crisis. The primary objective of socialist economic planning should not have been the suppression of markets. The goal should have been to overcome the cyclical mechanisms of the economy.
2010-06-15

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上野勝男
桃山学院大学経済学部

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