Re-examined The "Issues Of The Soviet’s Socialist Economic" By Stalin

Issues of The Soviet’s Socialist Economic, was wrote by Stalin inNovember,1951, for the approval of economic textbook drafts after adiscussion about the related problems. Attitude towards it varied fromperson to person for a long time. Especially after the upheaval of the formerSoviet Union, it turned to be the target when making conclusions. However,peoples’ thoughts should keep pace with the development of society. Underthe new historic background, how can we evaluate this work objectively,remaining a important question for us. The author think after the review andresearch, it would contribute theoretical and realistic significance to oursocialism construction.This article analysis the writing background of Issues of The Soviet’sSocialist Economic, holds that the reasons for Stalin published the workmainly are: make a political economic theory summary to the SovietUnion’s socialist economic construction practice experience and provideexperience to other socialist countries in Europe and Asia in their process ofsocialist economic construction, consolidate the international status ofsocialist camp, in order to compete with capitalism camps.Issues of The Soviet’s Socialist Economic including the economiclaws under social system, commodity production, the contradiction betweenproductivity and production and other six aspects, basically covering thesocialism part of the political economy theory. From the ideological sourceperspective, Stalin’s theory is based on the Marxism about the future ofsocial position, and absorbing Lenin’s theory and practice of socialism, alsosummarizes valuable experiences in socialist construction.Issues of The Soviet’s Socialist Economic, on the one hand, enrich thetheory of Marxist political economics, such as confirm the objectivity ofeconomic law under socialist system, point out that commodity productionis not equal to capitalist production, commodity production also existing under the socialist, admit maladjustment between the socialist productiveforces and production relations, embody the spirit of materialism anddialectics. On the other hand, due to the restriction of historical conditionsand cognition level, the work also has its limitations: neglect the relationshipbetween productivity and production relations, over-emphasize the effect ofproduction relation and the degree of public ownership, ignore the role ofprivate ownership, what’s more, the knowledge of commodity economy andlaw of value is one-sidedness, and so on.In brief, Issues of the Soviet’s Socialist Economic written by Stalin, isthe economic works under the specific historic period and environment, withgreat importance during the development of socialist economy. In the newhistorical period, there could be an important inspiration to re-evaluationthis work.