The Laws of Motion of the Soviet Economy

Ernest Mandel and Ernest Mandel

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1981, vol. 13, issue 1, 35-39

Abstract: The concept of a transitional society is utilized to analyze the laws of development of the Soviet economy. A transitional society, it is argued, is not defined by the simple combination or articulation of old and new relations, but instead is understood to be a formation with relations of production specific to this transitional period. The decisive feature of these new relations is the con scious distribution of the means of production and labor-power through the plan. The distribution of consumer goods, however, still maintains the commodity form. Consequently, the economic order is governed by the conflict of two antagonistic logics — the logic of the plan and the logic of the market.

Date: 1981
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