State Capitalism, Contentious Politics and Large-Scale Social Change

State capitalism is a normal form of capitalist development. Its extremes vary but it has been, and remains, central to understanding modern capitalism. This is especially the case in the so called Communist worlds of Russia and China, and for alternative economies like that of India and the Philippines, which are the focus of this timely and challenging book.

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In Memoriam: Vincent Kelly Pollard (1944-2010), David Fasenfest

Foreword, Peter T. Manicas


1. State Capitalist Analysis—Before the Russian Revolution, in Reaction to Stalin’s Consolidation of Power, and after the Cold War, Vincent Kelly Pollard

2. State Capitalism versus Communism: What Happened in the USSR?, Satya Gabriel, Stephen A. Resnick, and Richard D. Wolff

3. Labor, Exploitation and Capitalism in Russia before and after 1991, Michael J. Haynes

4. The ‘Russian Question’ and the U.S. Left, Martin Oppenheimer

5. Planning and the Fate of Democracy: State, Capital, and Governance in Post-Independence India , D. Parthasarathy

6. What Happened to Chinese Communism: The Transition from State Feudalism to State Capitalism, Satya Gabriel, Stephen A. Resnick, and Richard D. Wolff

7. Labor Representation and Organization under State Capitalism in China, Jackie Sheehan

8. A Consideration of China’s Incomplete Retreat from State Capitalism, Rumy Hasan

9. Chinese ‘Develop the West’ Campaigns and their Environmental Impacts: The Post-Socialist Condition in China, Yuehtsen Juliette Chung

10. State Capitalist Aspirations and the Two-Stage Theory of Revolution in the Philippines, Vincent Kelly Pollard

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