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The Laws of Motion of the Soviet Economy

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  • Ernest Mandel
  • Ernest Mandel

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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.

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  • Ernest Mandel & Ernest Mandel, 1981. "The Laws of Motion of the Soviet Economy," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 13(1), pages 35-39, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:13:y:1981:i:1:p:35-39
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