File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1997/97-03-14.105, message 13


Date: Wed, 12 Mar 1997 19:38:12 +0000
From: Lew <Lew-AT-dialogues.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: M-I: state capitalism


In message <970312012226_74742.1651_EHL43-1-AT-CompuServe.COM>, neil
<74742.1651-AT-CompuServe.COM> writes
>dear friends,
>
>
>Paul Z. & Neil White, yes there are many left trends
>analysis exposing state capitalism in Russia.
>This is a key issue for those trying to help re-build
>marxist influence amonst the working class fighters.
>
>
>Then there is Adam Buick's work (he seems to 
>have the politics of SPGB in UK ). But I have a 
>different work of his  than was posted.
>I have "STATE CAPITALISM-the wages system 
>under new management" by Buick/Crump
>Mc Millan, 1986.
>They say ex-USSR & bloc  was always
>state capitalist!
>
They (Buick, Crump and the SPGB) do *not* say that the ex-USSR & bloc
was always state capitalist. What they do say is that since 1917 there
has only been capitalist development in those countries. They trace the
changing fortunes of private capitalism and state capitalism, till by
the late 1920s state capitalism came to predominate in Russia. This is
shown by a Marxist analysis of the growth of commodity production, wage
labour and capital and all the other essentially capitalist economic
categories. The advantage of this perspective can also be seen when
comparing it with other explanations of the advent of state capitalism:
Stalinism, the first 5-year plan, the Second Sorld War, the death of
Stalin, etc. In all such cases the economy was clearly capitalist before
the chosen date.
-- 
Lew


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