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I'm missing something. Except for the very last line, which is an anecdote about one unnamed SWP-UKer speculating about Venezuela, I don't see evidence for Barry's claim that these three theories remain a dividing line with practical consequences -- and I say that as a staunch orthoTrot (degenerated/deformed workers' stater). I'm glad he can't prove it, because in fact revolutionary socialists and anarchists of many different stripes, organized and not, are collaborating and finding much common ground in solidarity work with the Arab Revolution, around Ukraine/Russia, China, and elsewhere. On Sat, Jun 14, 2014 at 2:05 AM, glparramatta via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > By *Barry Sheppard* > > June 6, 2014 -- In this two-part article I examine the ramifications for > today of the three theories of the USSR that emerged from the Left > Opposition: state capitalism, bureaucratic collectivism and Leon Trotsky's > theory of the degenerated workers' state. > > First, to clear the air, let's briefly look at what the three currents had > in common, as well as their political differences, up to the end of the > Second World War. All three traced their roots to the Russian Revolution > and its leadership, and the new Communist International that emerged from > it. They also agreed that as a result of the international isolation of the > revolution, its encirclement by hostile capitalist regimes, the economic > backwardness inherited from tsarism and the destruction by the > imperialist-backed civil war coming on top of that of the First World War, > the economy of Soviet Russia was devastated. > > Full article at http://links.org.au/node/3901 > > * * * > Subscribe free to Links - International Journal of Socialist Renewal - at > http://www.feedblitz.com/f/?Sub=343373 > > You can also follow Links on Twitter at http://twitter.com/LinksSocialism > or on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=10865397643 > > Visit and bookmark http://links.org.au and add it to your RSS feed ( > http://links.org.au/rss.xml). If you would like us to consider an > article, please send it to [email protected] > > *Please pass on to anybody you think will be interested in Links. > > *Comments welcome on all articles > > *Return daily for new articles > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: [email protected] > Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/ > options/marxism/acpollack2%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
