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State capitalism would be a step forward as compared with the present state of affairs in our Soviet Republic. If in approximately six months' time state capitalism became established in our Republic, this would be a great success and a sure guarantee that within a year socialism will have gained a permanently firm hold. [45]
He rationalised this by claiming that the state could exist in a communist society, as long as the Soviet Union was encircled by capitalism. [13] However, surprisingly, with the establishment of satellite states in Eastern Europe , Stalin claimed that socialism in one country was only possible in a large country like the Soviet Union, and that ...
He believed it was capitalism, but justified it by insisting that it was a different type of capitalism, "state capitalism", the last stage of capitalism before socialism evolved. [17] While Stalin seemed receptive towards Lenin's shift in policy towards a state capitalist system, he stated in the Twelfth Party Congress in April 1923 that it ...
Cliff proposed state capitalism as an alternative theory that more accurately describes the nature of the Soviet Union under Stalinism. [ 3 ] In a 1979 Monthly Review essay, Ernest Mandel argued that the hypothesis that the Soviet bureaucracy is a new class does not correspond to a serious analysis of the real development and the real ...
The Cold War period saw a global ideological struggle between the communist bloc, led by the Soviet Union, and the capitalist West, led by the United States. The eventual dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991 marked a significant decline in the global influence of communism, though the ideology persists in some countries and continues to ...
Primitive socialist accumulation, sometimes referred to as the socialist accumulation, was a concept put forth in the early Soviet Union during the period of the New Economic Policy. It was developed as a counterpart to the process of the primitive accumulation of capital that took place during the early stages and development of capitalist ...
This tradition has become unusually widespread... also due to the fact that now almost everything around is the property of the treasury or state property". [1] The Soviet state has been concerned with the problem of protecting socialist property from selfish attacks since the mid-1920s: the Criminal Code of the Russian Socialist Federative ...
Johnn Fairley, French Developments in the Theory of State Monopoly Capitalism, in: Science and Society; 44(3), Fall 1980, pages 305-25. Keitha S. Fine, The French communist party: the theory of state monopoly capitalism and the practice of class politics, 1958-1978. Phd Thesis, Tufts University, 1979. Ernest Mandel, Late Capitalism, pp. 515–522.