State Capitalism, Contentious Politics and Large-Scale Social ChangeVincent Pollard State capitalism is back. It never went away. This book looks at the role of state capitalism in major European and Asian societies. It confronts neo-liberal pieties about the role of markets and private property in capitalist development and radical accounts which see the state as the antithesis of capitalism. State capitalism is a normal form of capitalist development. Its extremes may vary but it has been, and remains, central to an understanding of modern capitalism. This is especially the case in the so called Communist and 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. |
Contents
1 State Capitalist AnalysisBefore the Russian Revolution in Reaction to Stalins Consolidation of Power and after the Cold War | 1 |
What Happened in the USSR? | 21 |
3 Labor Exploitation and Capitalism in Russia before and after 1991 | 39 |
4 The Russian Question and the US Left | 65 |
State Capital and Governance in PostIndependence India | 81 |
The Transition from State Feudalism to State Capitalism | 119 |
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State Capitalism, Contentious Politics and Large-Scale Social Change Vincent Kelly Pollard No preview available - 2012 |
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