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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
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