Schlagwort: capitalist restauration
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China
| want to ask about workers’ states. Two questions about China. The first question: I read your material. I read that at your last world congress that the nature of the Chinese state is not so definite, the process is not finished, and your Swedish section, or a majority of your Swedish section, supports the…
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Russia, Eastern Europe and State Capitalism
On the question of Eastern Europe, what was the process of the counter-revolution and why was there not a serious revolutionary movement of the Russian working class? We have written a lot of material on this. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe was one of the greatest setbacks for the working class…
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The Working Class Today
In the 1990s there was a big ideological attack from the bourgeoisie with the claim that the working class no longer existed! This ideological attack was a sign of a real process. Before the process of globalisation began, there was the process of deindustrialisation in many countries. In Milan there used to be ten factories…
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The World Situation
Like the majority of Marxists internationally you say there was a change in economics in the mid-1970s. Before, we had a very long period of development of capitalism worldwide, not only in the advanced countries but also the beginning of national liberation movements. But after the mid-1970s a new cycle of capitalism began. The world…
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Peter Taaffe: Bureaucrats tremble before workers‘ movement
(Militant International Review, No. 41, Autumn 1989) Peter Taaffe explains how the political revolution against Stalinism in Eastern Europe has begun. The MIR has long predicted that Gorbachev’s attempts at ‚reforms from the top‘ would provoke revolution, political revolution, from below. The mighty strike wave of the Soviet miners in July confirms that analysis. Like…
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Lynn Walsh China: On the road to capitalism?
[Militant No. 820, 24 October 1986 p. 10] Do the current reforms raise the spectre of capitalist restoration? Even Reagan now refers to Deng’s group as ’so-called Communists‘, perhaps believing that they have seen the light. Those who argue this, whether eager capitalists or apprehensive socialists, greatly exaggerate the scope of the reforms. They are…
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Lynn Walsh: The Chinese Puzzle
[Militant International Review, No 56, March 1994, p. 26-32] How can China’s ‘economic miracle’ and since Tiananmen, its apparent political stability, be explained? Lynn Walsh looks at The Chinese Puzzle. China, it seems, is different. Since 1989 the advanced capitalist countries have been experiencing recession and only feeble economic recoveries. Most of the economically underdeveloped…
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Lynn Walsh: Can Germany reunite?
[Militant No. 981, 23 February 1990 p. 8-9] Events in East Germany (GDR) have moved with lightning speed. Until a couple of weeks ago, unification seemed a remote possibility. Now it appears quite possible within a few months. Last year, the Stalinist regime of Honecker was swept from power by a magnificent movement of the…
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Lynn Walsh: German unification: capitalism triumphant?
[Militant International Review, No 43, Spring 1990, p. 14-22] Lynn Walsh argues that, in the absence of a clear alternative, the collapse of East Germany’s Stalinist regime, combined with the overwhelming impression of prosperity in West Germany, undermined the movement towards the political revolution begun by last years mass demonstrations. What are the prospects now?…