Transition to Socialist Economy by Charles Bettelheim, B. Pearce
By Charles Bettelheim, B. Pearce
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Commodity production presupposes definite social conditions, namely, producers producing more or less independently of each other. When these social conditions no longer exist, that is, when society has fully taken possession of all the means of production, there can no longer be any place for commodity production. But in that case, it will be asked, how is this assertion to be reconciled with the foregoing analyses? Is there then no lesson to be drawn from the experience of the planned economies?
The same is true in every branch of industry, starting with the extractive industries and going on to embrace the transformative industries, and in every unit of production. The increasing socialisation of the productive forces is thus shown in the fact that every branch has recourse to means of production from an ever-greater variety of sources. This process is the other aspect of the increasing division of labour and the increasing specialisation of economic activities. It is this socialisation of labour that forms the objective basis for planning and renders it both possible and necessary, owing to the increasing interdependence of the various elementary processes of production.
23: Eng. H. , p. ) In this same Critique of the Gotha Programme, Marx explains that he has in mind not developed communist society, but communist society as it has page 33 just emerged from capitalist society. , p. 23; Eng. , p. ) According to this passage, there will be in socialist society, even at its beginning, neither commodities, nor value, nor money, nor, consequently, prices and wages. This is the same idea which Marx had already formulated in Capital and which about a year later Engels took up again in Anti-Dühring, especially when he wrote: "The seizure of the means of production by society puts an end to commodity production.