Public Property and Its State Form: Contradictions and Potential of the USSR
https://doi.org/10.33293/1609-1442-2021-4(95)-122-127
Abstract
The article shows that in the USSR, the development of associated social creativity (including such a phenomenon as “enthusiasm”), based on public property, was opposite to the opinions of most economists one of the important sources of development of this economic system. At the same time, the opposite content was hidden behind the form of public property in the USSR – the alienation of workers from the functions of management and appropriation of public wealth due to the bureaucratization of state property, which was the main brake on the development of the economy in which these property relations dominated. The analysis of this contradiction shows that public property most fully realizes its potential either as a state property (in such extreme conditions as wars, global catastrophes, etc.), or to the extent it is based on associated social creativity. The potential of public disposal and appropriation based on social creativity is especially great in the field of production of public goods (education, health care, art), where public ownership of the results of creative work can take the form of “everyone's ownership of everything”, which makes it possible to remove the restrictions of intellectual private property.
Supporting agencies: The research was funded by RFBR, project number 21-010-43007\21.
About the Author
Alexander V. Buzgalin
Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Doctor of Economics; Professor; Professor of the Department of Political Economy of the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov Moscow State University; Director of the Center for Modern Marxist Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy of Moscow State University; Visiting Professor of the University of Cambridge, Beijing, Hainan Pedagogical and Harbin Pedagogical Universities
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Buzgalin A.V. Public Property and Its State Form: Contradictions and Potential of the USSR. Economics of Contemporary Russia. 2021;(4):122-127. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.33293/1609-1442-2021-4(95)-122-127
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