Re: AUT: Re: State capitalism?

[Sébastien Budgen <sebastien.budgen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI, Historical Materialism will soon publish a long review essay by Mike
Haynes dealing with the recent books by Paresh Chattopadhyay (The Marxian
Concept of Capital and the Soviet Experience) and Neil Fernandez (Capitalism
and Class Struggle in the USSR. A Marxist Theory)

> From: cwright <cwright@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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> Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 11:28:34 -0500
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> Subject: AUT: Re: State capitalism?
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> 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 Svrd" <per-anders.svard@xxxxxxxxx>
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> Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2002 10:56 AM
> Subject: AUT: State capitalism?
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>> Hello!
>>
>> 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?
>>
>> Best,
>> Per-Anders
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