Western Marxism and the Soviet Union
Western Marxism and the Soviet Union

Author: Marcel van der Linden

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2007-06-30

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9047420802

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The ‘Russian Question’ was an absolutely central problem for Marxism in the twentieth century. Numerous attempts were made to understand the nature of Soviet society. The present book tries to portray the development of these theoretical contributions since 1917 in a coherent, comprehensive appraisal. It aims to present the development of the Western Marxist critique of the Soviet Union across a rather long period in history (from 1917 to the present) and in a large region (Western Europe and North America). Within this demarcation of limits in time and space, an effort has been made to ensure completeness, by paying attention to all Marxist analyses which in some way significantly deviated from or added to the older theories.

Class Theory and History
Class Theory and History

Author: Stephen A. Resnick

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 113670440X

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First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy
Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy

Author: Thomas M. Twiss

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2014-05-08

Total Pages: 514

ISBN-13: 9004269533

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During the twentieth century the problem of post-revolutionary bureaucracy emerged as the most pressing theoretical and political concern confronting Marxism. No one contributed more to the discussion of this question than Leon Trotsky. In Trotsky and the Problem of Soviet Bureaucracy, Thomas M. Twiss traces the development of Trotsky’s thinking on this issue from the first years after the Bolshevik Revolution through the Moscow Trials of the 1930s. Throughout, he examines how Trotsky’s perception of events influenced his theoretical understanding of the problem, and how Trotsky’s theory reciprocally shaped his analysis of political developments. Additionally, Twiss notes both strengths and weaknesses of Trotsky’s theoretical perspective at each stage in its development.

Free to Lose
Free to Lose

Author: John E. ROEMER

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-06-30

Total Pages: 217

ISBN-13: 0674042867

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John Roemer challenges the morality of an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production. Unless you start with a certain amount of wealth in such a society, you are only "free to lose." This book addresses crucial questions of political philosophy and normative economics in terms understandable by readers with a minimal knowledge of economics.

The Moderate Bolshevik
The Moderate Bolshevik

Author: Charters Wynn

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2022-04-11

Total Pages: 467

ISBN-13: 900451497X

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This first English-language biography of Mikhail Tomsky illuminates how the sole worker in the top echelon of the Bolshevik Party, and the leader of the huge trade-union bureaucracy, helped shape Soviet domestic and foreign policy along generally moderate lines throughout the 1920s.

Chinese Marxism in Flux 1978-84
Chinese Marxism in Flux 1978-84

Author: Bill Brugger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-09-18

Total Pages: 343

ISBN-13: 0429803001

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This book, first published in 1985, considers the state of Marxist thought in China at the time, a time when the country’s leadership appeared more concerned with attaining modernisation and economic development than Marxist theory. It considers the problems that Chinese Marxist intellectuals were facing and relates them to the actions of the political leadership. The Gang of Four, their ‘utopianism’ and ‘dogmatism’ had been denounced and this book argues that rather than being in retreat, Chinese Marxism was in fact enjoying a productive period.

Power and Money
Power and Money

Author: Ernest Mandel

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1992-06-17

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780860915485

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Analyses of bureaucratic power and privilege have an academic pedigree but have also long preoccupied socialists. The collapse of communist rule in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe puts to a new test the classical theories concerning the relationship between bureaucracy and class. Power and Money is a timely contribution to this renewal of theory, exploring the social and historical roots of bureaucracy, both within the capitalist state and in workers’ mass organizations. Ernest Mandel draws on archival and contemporary accounts in an analysis of both capitalist administration and the ideology and practice of bureaucratic dictatorship in the communist bloc. He measures the actual performance of western and eastern societies against the forecasts of Lenin and Trotsky, Ludwig von Mises and Roberto Michels, or the more recent reflections of Amitai Etzioni and Alvin Gouldner. This lucid study challenges those theories—Stalinist, Weberian or social-democratic—which claim that an autonomous officialdom is a necessary feature of modern societies. It also furnishes a perceptive account of the specific dynamics of communist and post-communist society.