State Capitalism in Russia

Chapter 4
Russia’s transformation from a workers’ state to a capitalist state

[Introduction]

Subordination of consumption to accumulation – subordination of the workers to the means of production

The accumulation of capital on the one hand and of poverty on the other

The productivity of labour and the worker

Who controls production?
Changes in the relations of distribution

The denial of any legal freedom to the worker

Forced labour

The expropriation of the means of production from the peasantry

The transformation of money into money capital – an important symptom of the system

The introduction of the turnover tax

From a workers’ state with bureaucratic deformations to the complete liberation of the bureaucracy from popular control.

Why the Five-Year Plan signifies the transformation of the bureaucracy into a ruling class

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The common and different features of state capitalism and a workers’ state (Part 1)

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