The
contradiction which is classified as the severest one in most Marxist analyses of society is the plan-market opposition. From
this, it follows that the social order that will rise from the ashes of
capitalism upon the solution of this contradiction must be a centrally planned
and, hence, non-market system. The author
emphasizes
that, instead, the existence of a
different contradiction whose solution
is compatible with the assumption that the newly emerging production
mode, i.e. socialism, will still be a
market economy. In the conclusion, the author mentions a seldom-quoted article that Lenin wrote after his
experiments with wartime communism and the Nep and in which he spelt out
that “cooperation is socialism”.
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