ABSTRACT
The published chapters of my work The New Economics * a book devoted to a theoretical analysis of the Soviet economy, have been subjected to bitter critique. Opponents have especially attacked the chapter on the law of socialist accumulation. The chapter "The Law of Value in Soviet Economy" at first met with a much milder reception during the three-day debate in the Communist Academy. A few opponents even paid their compliments to the author. But thereafter it did not take long before the new chapter was attacked just as harshly as the preceding one, in particular in an article by Comrade E. Gol'denberg that appeared in Bol'shevik last April 30.**I don't know, it may be that the tone he displayed in that article is a personal trait of Comrade Gol'denberg —former oppositionists often display above-average zeal; in any case, if all our other opponents will just be more objective, the matter cannot but profit. For my own part, I would like to maintain my composure and objectivity. Disagreements exist. What is the use of blowing them up, or of inventing new points of divergence that do not exist? Anyone who engages in this, whether in theory or in politics, permits himself this luxury only because he has not given enough thought to our future.
