Prodor staljinizma u političku ekonomiju socijalizma
Inroads of Stalinism in the Political Economy of Socialism

Summary/Abstract: The author analyzes the evolution and fate of political economy, particularly of the political economy of socialism, in the Soviet Union and, indirectly, also in other socialist countries. Special attention is drawn to the Stalinist roots in the political economy of socialism, which he sees in the tradition and practice of a one-party political system, in the conviction in the truthfulness of its own ideological discourse, and in demagogic reasons, which had also helped to bring about Stalinism. In the Soviet Union, from the times of Stalin’s rule and until more recent times, political economy is reduced to the study of the capitalist mode of production and to a description of concrete economic policies in the country. The manifestation of this altitude is the identification of political economy with economics and economic policy. The author analyzes some crucial postulates of Soviet economic thinking of that period. He provides critical comment on the thesis that every social mode of production has its own -basic economic law », from which are derived five -basic economic law s-, that of the primitive community, of the system of slavery, of feudalism, of capitalism and of socialism. The author suggests that Marx's theory indicates the existence of a general economic law. operating in every mode of production: the law of proportionality. A critical review is made also of some other Stalinist and Soviet economic postulates: on the social division of labour, on the possibilities and ways of transcending the division into intellectual and physical labour, on the problems of labour surplus and product surplus, etc.

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