Eastern European Studies, Political Science, European Studies

Bureaucracy and Revolution in Eastern Europe.

Harman, Chris

Pluto Press

Bureaucracy and revolution in Eastern Europe

Marxists Against Stalinism brings together contributions from Ernest Mandel and Chris Harman in the long-running debate on the class nature of the USSR. Chris Harman argued that Soviet Union and the other "socialist" countries were bureaucratic state-capitalisms. Mandel argued that the Soviet Union had degenerated under the bureaucratic dictatorship of Stalin but had not reverted to a form of capitalism. Paul Le Blanc provides an introduction that looks back at the debate 30 years on.

Marxists against Stalinism

Politics & Social Sciences

MANDEL, ERNEST

Politics & Government

Resistance Books

Russia: From Workers' State to State Capitalism

Cliff, Tony

Binns, Peter

History

Bookmarks Publications

The Fire Last Time: 1968 and After

Class Struggles in Eastern Europe 1945-83

How Marxism Works

Chris Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals. Interacting with the forces of technological change as well as the impact of powerful individuals and revolutionary ideas, these societies have engendered events familiar to every schoolchild-from the empires of antiquity to the world wars of the twentieth century.In a bravura conclusion, Chris Harman exposes the reductive complacency of contemporary capitalism, and asks, in a world riven as never before by suffering and inequality, why we imagine that it can-or should-survive much longer. Ambitious, provocative and invigorating, A People's History of the World delivers a vital corrective to traditional history, as well as a powerful sense of the deep currents of humanity which surge beneath the froth of government.

A People’s History of the World: From the Stone Age to the New Millennium

Americas

Tantor Audio

We've been told for years that the capitalist free market is a self-correcting perpetual growth machine in which sellers always find buyers, precluding any major crisis in the system. Then the credit crunch of August 2007 turned into the great crash of September–October 2008, leading one apologist for the system, Willem Buiter, to write of "the end of capitalism as we knew it." As the crisis unfolded, the world witnessed the way in which the runaway speculation of the "shadow" banking system wreaked havoc on world markets, leaving real human devastation in its wake. Faced with the financial crisis, some economic commentators began to talk of "zombie banks"–financial institutions that were in an "undead state" and incapable of fulfilling any positive function but a threat to everything else. What they do not realize is that twenty-first century capitalism as a whole is a zombie system, seemingly dead when it comes to achieving human goals.

Zombie Capitalism: Global Crisis and the Relevance of Marx

Business & Money

Economics

Haymarket Books

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