Chapters:
0:00 Intro
00:40 Day 1
05:07 Day 1: Tomorrow and Yesterday
10:35 Day 1: Commodities and Socialism
19:19 Day 1: The Russian Economy
23:40 Day 1: Anarchy and Despotism
28:38 Day 1: State and Retreat
31:57 Day 2
34:22 Day 2: Certainties and Uncertainties
43:21 Day 2: Society and Homeland
50:09 Day 2: Law and Theory
01:00:32 Day 2: Nature and History
01:05:16 Day 2: Marx and the Laws
01:12:49 Day 2: Socialism and Communism
01:17:08 Day 3 (Morning)
01:19:05 Day 3 (Morning): Products and Exchange
01:24:14 Day 3 (Morning): Profit and Surplus Value
01:29:27 Day 3 (Morning): Engels and Marx
01:34:32 Day 3 (Morning): Rate and Mass
01:41:57 Day 3 (Morning): 19th and 20th Century
01:51:11 Day 3 (Afternoon)
01:56:46 Day 3 (Afternoon): Competition and Monopoly
02:02:10 Day 3 (Afternoon): Markets and Empires
02:09:24 Day 3 (Afternoon): Latitude and Longitude Degrees
02:14:21 Day 3 (Afternoon): Classes and States
02:22:53 Day 3 (Afternoon): War or Peace?
02:25:25 Day 3 (Afternoon): “Right to the first night”
Audiobook
A substantive and highly informed critique of Stalin’s 1951 treatise ‘Economic Problems of Socialism in the USSR’, and its theoretical rationalizations and justifications of the course taken by Soviet economic development; in particular taking to task Stalin’s claim that socialism has been realized, i.e. lower stage communism.
There are many choice quotes that can be extracted from the text - for example, the shallowness of smuggling in ‘state industrialism under the socialist banner’, and palming it off as if it represented a socialist advance; how Soviet industrialization represents a similar process of primitive accumulation (although I believe the German translates closer to ‘original accumulation’) as described by Marx in Capital; Bordiga even goes so far as to say that in much of the undeveloped world a certain glorification of the productive forces is ‘necessary.’
But what Bordiga is absolutely not prepared to accept is that this is socialist or a socialist process. He characterizes the Soviet economy as state capitalist.
Link to the text: https://www.marxists.org/archive/bordiga/works/1952/stalin.htm