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Historical Materialism , volume 14:3 (207–243) © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, 2006 Also available online – www.brill.nl 1 Haynes 2002, p. 322. 2 Resnick and Wolff 2002. 3 Haynes 2004, p. 29. 4 Haynes 2004, Chattopadhyay 2004, Haynes 2002. Mar tin Thomas Three Traditions? Marxism and the USSR To classify critical-Marxist writing about the USSR into three ‘positions’ or ‘traditions’ – ‘degenerated workers’ state’, ‘bureaucratic collectivism’, and ‘state capitalism’ – is usual, tidy and, so I will argue, misleading. 1 For example, Mike Haynes welcomes the recent book by Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff 2 as reinforcement to the ‘capitalist/state- capitalist view of the USSR . . . becoming a major paradigm on the left.’ 3 But, in substance, Haynes’s ‘state-capitalist’ views, or mine, are closer both politically and in intellectual filiation to those of many revolutionary anti-Stalinists who would reject the term ‘state capitalism’ than to Resnick-Wolff’s. Again, the recent debate between Mike Haynes and Paresh Chattopadhyay shows that, although Haynes and Chattopadhyay share the term state capitalism, their substantive evaluations are very different. 4 To rejoice at the increasing numbers who cheer the state-capitalist colours obscures more than it clarifies. HIMA 14,3_f8_207-243II 8/11/06 3:16 PM Page
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Published: Jan 1, 2006
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