AUT: Re: State capitalism?

["cwright" <cwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Aufheben has a great series on theorization of so-called 'communist regimes'
Issues 6-9 http://www.geocities.com/aufheben2/  Also, the literature around
Raya Dunayevskaya, Amadeo Bordiga, CLR James, Paresh Chattopadhyay,
Socialism or Barbarism, and the Situationist International (all of which
Aufheben references, and more) is certainly worth reading.  Paresh and
Bordiga both argue against the term state capitalism, IMO correctly.  There
are the far less interesting variants of 'state capitalism' found within
Trotskyism such as Tony Cliff's stuff, but it's really quite awful and only
worth reading for an understanding of their politics.  In the Trotskyist
camp, Lutte Ouvriere has a more interesting argument based on the idea that
outside Russia the abscence of workers' revolutions and the establishment of
workers' organs of self-management and self-determination (councils, etc.)
created 'bourgeois states without a bourgeoisie'.

Some of the debate revolves around whether or not you think that Lenin was
secretly seeking to install capitalism or whether you think he was a
revolutionary with a seriously compromised politics with a logic he himself
never grasped, but which he was in the grasp of.

Cheers,
Chris
"In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the
false." - Debord

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From: "Per-Anders Svärd" <per-anders.svard@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 10:56 AM
Subject: AUT: State capitalism?


> Hello!
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> I'm trying to get an overview of the debate on "state capitalism" (i. e.
> the question of whether the USSR, China and other self-proclaimed
> "socialist" states are/were in fact capitalist in character).
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> Any good resources out there?
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> Best,
> Per-Anders
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