A new image of socialism…The path from capitalism to socialism is a long, difficult and painful road
On the one hand, we are not utopians...We must avoid writing recipes for the cookbooks of the future, as Marx once put it…On, the other hand, we need to apply the greatest possible degree of scientific insight to the visualizing of alternatives to capitalist exploitation, polarization, isolation, uncertain states, damage of the human spirit, environmental plundering, and out of control move to devastation...Are we trying to ride two horses in different directions?
Socialism with democratic participation, raised quality of life for the people, with justice, social equality, and political and economic independence, runs counter to that which is reproduced by global neoliberalism…Socialism and the market can lead to counter-productive relations in the absence of appropriate channels for planning, and if a high percentage of the population is exposed to the market's desires…Economic experience has shown that the alternatives that are isolated from the global environment, as well as those who are exposed to upper limit conditions, are compelled to suffer the consequences of the changes, if they lack a firm economic, social and political, and foundation, and a State that is in agreement with reality…
The isolation from the world economy had negative effects on the socialist economies of Europe, because: international changes produced by new types of capitalist collection and growth hastened the technological obsolescence of the socialist countries; they lacked the necessary resources because imports from areas of globalization had been restricted...Consequently, they were lacking of the latest tendencies in scientific developments...It wasn’t until the 1980s that there was increased awareness of the need to transform the design and models of European socialism, which had its major sudden rush from 1987 to 1990, when the political representatives of the system underwent a deep and destructive political transformation in their conceptions of socialism. The prevailing topic in the period was the freedom and impulse of the market, without state control...The widespread mood was to make a connection to globalization via an improved, renewed socialism…
Another fluctuation of socialism is the idea of transforming the centralized system of planning into a socialist market economy...This was proposed by Deng Xiao Ping in the 3rd Plenum of the XI Central Committee of China...He proposed to introduce the new great march of socialism...the four updates in industry, in agriculture, defense, science and technology...and introduced new ways in order to open the doors to the outside world. The goal was to move toward a decentralized economy by using the market and foreign capital...The principal statement is that market forces, private ownership and foreign investments led by the Communist Party can be converted for the construction of socialism…
We have to think about socialism dynamically, not statically. It is a process of maturation and development...a long, slow argument of changing social conditions, in which new consciousness makes possible new achievements in democratic control over the socioeconomy, on the one hand; and the new conditions in turn provide the foundation of experience on which the new consciousness can be stably reproduced and improved, on the other…It should be understood that socialism rules out the wide inequality inherited from capitalism: the inequality of income based on the class monopoly of wealth and power...The remaining inequality has as origin the inherited layering of the work experience, and that cannot be simply left behind and forgotten. It can be slowly lessened, along with the division of the workforce into creative-managerial vs routine functions, intellectual vs manual labor, instrumental vs caring labor etc…
The obvious opposite tradeoff between productive efficiency and socialist aims is not unchangeable. Considering socialist development, the tradeoff will become a positive relation, in which increase in the quality and democracy of work and life is necessary for further productive progress...This combined effect ensures that consensualization, dexterity, equality and democracy and not polarization and instability, will result from the spontaneous activity of working people…
Socialism, not capitalism, will then appear as the logical expression of human nature...It will take both will and vision to get there…