1st Edition

Capitalism and Class Struggle in the USSR A Marxist Theory

By Neil C. Fernandez Copyright 1997
380 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

380 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1997, this was the first Autonomist Marxist book on the USSR. The various theories of Soviet capitalism are considered more comprehensively than in any previous work, and are shown to be inadequate insofar as they fail to demonstrate satisfactorily the predominance of the category of capital. A powerful new theory is developed which does precisely this, introducing the concepts... Read more

1. A Communist Approach. 2. Soviet Capitalism. 3. Soviet Bureaucratic Capitalism: A New Theory. 4. The Class Struggle: A Critique of Sovietological Theories. 5. The Class Struggle: A Critique of ‘Marxist’ Theories. 6. The Class Struggle: A Critique of Existing Marxist Theories. 7. The Class Struggle: An Autonomist Marxist Theory.

Biography

Neil C. Fernandez

’...a breakthrough...’ The Socialist Standard ’...for the first time, our view that Russia from Lenin to Gorbachev was a form of capitalism is both given its proper historical place and discussed seriously’ The Socialist Standard