La renovación como estrategia de desarrollo urbano en Buenos Aires (1996-2011)

Abstract

Disponible en línea: 20 de diciembre de 2013 Articulo de Investigación. Derivado del trabajo de Doctorado ¿La Ciudad para quién? Transformaciones territoriales, políticas urbanas y procesos de producción del hábitat en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (1996-2011). La renovación como estrategia de desarrollo urbano en Buenos Aires (1996-2011) The renewal and urban development strategy

Ché Guevara: Cooperatives and the Political Economy of Socialist Transition

“…No-one scientifically explains this contradiction." 16 Che recognised the value of Soviet assistance and had great respect for the achievements of USSR. His criticisms were intended to be constructive.…”

“…In these conditions, man neither develops his fabulous productive capacities, nor does he develop himself as the conscious builder of a new society". 17 Che hoped to convince the other socialist countries to reverse the prevailing trend towards "market socialism".…”

“…However, Lenin's followers "did not see the danger and it remained as the great Trojan horse of socialism, direct material interest as an economic lever". 18 This capitalist superstructure became entrenched; the entire legal-economic scaffolding of contemporary Soviet society originated from the NEP, influencing the relations of production and creating a hybrid system that inevitably provoked conflicts and contradictions which were increasingly resolved in favour of the capitalist superstructure. In short, said Che, capitalism was returning to the Soviet bloc.…”

“…He insisted that the kolkhoz system is: "characteristic of the USSR, not of socialism", 25 complaining that the Manual: "regularly confuses the notion of socialism with what occurs in the USSR." 26 Further, he argued that cooperatives are not a socialist form of ownership and that they impose a superstructure with capitalist property relations and economic levers.…”

“…If this is not a step towards more advanced forms, a capitalist superstructure will develop and come into contradiction with society." 31 The "big collective" is the nation and "more advanced forms" refers to social ownership of the means of production, which eliminates commodity-exchange relations between units of production because there is no transferral of ownership, thus the law of value is undermined.…”