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description: CONTENTS:Remarks On Economic Questions Connected With The November 1951 Discussion1. Character of Economic Laws Under Socialism2. Commodity Production Under Socialism3. The Law of Value Under Socialism4. Abolition of the Antithesis Between Town and Country and Between Mental and Physical Labour and the Elimination of the Distinction Between Them5. Disintegration of the Single World Market and Deepening of the Crisis of the World Capitalist System6. Inevitability of Wars Between Capitalist Countries7. The Basic Economic Laws of Modern Capitalism and of Socialism8. Other Questions9. International Importance of a Marxist Textbook on Political Economy10. Ways of Improving the Draft Textbook on Political EconomyReply To Comrade Alexander Ilyich NotkinConcerning The Errors Of Comrade L. D. YaroshenkoI. Comrade Yaroshenko's Chief ErrorII. Other Errors of Comrade YaroshenkoReply To Comrades A. V. Sanina And V. G. Venzher1. Character of the Economic Laws of Socialism2. Measures for Elevating Collective-Farm Property to the Level of Public Property *** a selection from the introductory: REMARKS ON ECONOMIC QUESTIONS CONNECTED WITH THE NOVEMBER 1951 DISCUSSION I have received all the materials on the economic discussion arranged to assess the draft textbook on political economy. The material received includes the -Proposals for the Improvement of the Draft Textbook on Political Economy- -Proposals for the Elimination of Mistakes and Inaccuracies- in the draft and the -Memorandum on Disputed Issues.- On all these materials as well as on the draft textbook I consider it necessary to make the following remarks. 1. CHARACTER OF ECONOMIC LAWS UNDER SOCIALISM Some comrades deny the objective character of laws of science and of laws of political economy particularly under socialism. They deny that the laws of political economy reflect law-governed processes which operate independently of the will of man. They believe that in view of the specific role assigned to the Soviet state by history the Soviet state and its leaders can abolish existing laws of political economy and can form create new laws. These comrades are profoundly mistaken. It is evident that they confuse laws of science which reflect objective processes in nature or society processes which take place independently of the will of man with the laws which are issued by governments which are made by the will of man and which have only juridical validity. But they must not be confused. Marxism regards laws of science--whether they be laws of natural science or laws of political economy--as the reflection of objective processes which take place independently of the will of man. Man may discover these laws get to know them study them reckon with them in his activities and utilize them in the interests of society but he cannot change or abolish them. Still less can he form or create new laws of science. Does this mean for instance that the results of the action of the laws of nature the results of the action of the forces of nature are generally inavertible that the destructive action of the forces of nature always and everywhere proceeds with an elemental and inexorable power that does not yield to the influence of man? No it does not. Leaving aside astronomical geological and other similar processes which man really is powerless to influence even if he has come to know the laws of their development in many other cases man is very far from powerless in the sense of being able to influence the processes of nature. In all such cases having come to know the laws of nature reckoning with them and relying on them and intelligently applying and utilizing them man can restrict their sphere of action...
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title: Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R.
publisher: International publishers