Class and Politics in the Periphery and the Transition to Socialism
Focusing on class relationships and the state, this article outlines a perspective for the transition to socialism in the periphery. Inequalities on a world scale and the penetration and interlock of class structures leave little room for peaceful transition. The class-anchored state is identified as playing a pivotal role in the consolidation of the revolution. The need to proceed beyond nationalization to 'demodernize' and 'uproot' rather than merely socialize production is a result of imperial capital's distorted ecological, demographic and productive structures. Alternative 'state capitalist', 'peasant-based revolu tionary' theories of transition are criticized in the course of a revised conception of the role of workers in twentieth century revolution in the Third World.
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1976
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Authors: | Petras, James F. ; Petras, James F. |
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Review of Radical Political Economics. - Union for Radical Political Economics. - Vol. 8.1976, 2, p. 20-35
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Union for Radical Political Economics |
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