Pollock’s Soviet study proved merely the possibility of organized capitalism.
Evidence
It would never have been possible to undertake reckless economic experiments of this sort if food production had not been able to continue largely unaffected by them, and if the population had not been satisfied with a very limited supply of industrial productsconditions which do not apply in densely populated industrial countries.’ Pollock himself expressly stated that
Ever since Marx, socialist theoreticians have all agreed that one of the necessary preconditions for establishing a socialist economic order is a highly developed capitalist economy.' This all implied that what was happening in the Soviet Union had no implications whatever for the theoretical possibility of a socialist economic system or of a planned economy free of class domination. — <cite>Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 242</cite> (#qualifies`, via linked claim)
Categorization
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
- XREF: connects to: Pollock judged the Soviet experiment irrelevant to socialism’s feasibility in industrialized countries. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 242
Related
- Pollock judged the Soviet experiment irrelevant to socialism’s feasibility in industrialized countries. (similarity 0.97)
- Pollock’s labeling of the Soviet economy as socialist depended on Bolshevik self-descriptions. (similarity 0.86)
- Pollock saw capitalist planned economy as viable as socialism by 1930s (similarity 0.81)
- Pollock predicted Western democracies would adopt state-directed capitalism (similarity 0.80)
- Pollock located capitalism’s weakness in sectoral disproportions rather than falling profit rates. (similarity 0.80)
- Pollock saw state capitalist intervention as a promising new stage already by 1933 (similarity 0.79)
- A capitalist planned economy was economically viable, blocked only by political will (similarity 0.79)
Broader Connections
- Pollock judged the Soviet experiment irrelevant to socialism’s feasibility in industrialized countries.
#qualifies(0.85) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 242