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To whom it may concern (in weiteres Produkt aus meiner OCR-Backstube, lange nicht fertig geworden):
„Walter Daum: The Life and Death of Stalinism – A Resurrection of Marxist Theory“
Walter Daum, einer der führenden Köpfe der US-amerikanischen League for a Revolutionary Party, einer linksstaatskapitalistischen/trotzkistischen Gruppe, hatte dieses Buch noch vor dem Untergang der Sowjetunion 1990 veröffentlicht. Es ist eine, zum teil krude, zum Teil interessante Tour de Force durch die mittlerweile überschaubar gewordene Welt des Marxismus-Leninismus in ihren Hauptvarianten Stalinismus, Trotzkismus und Staatskapitalismus.
Die PDF-Version des stark editierten Scans (den ich auf DIN A4 umformatiert habe) kann man hier zusammen mit einem Volltextindex des Buches als ZIP-Datei downloaden.
Hier die Inhaltsübersicht:
Introduction: Theories of Stalinism 9
Pseudo-Socialist Capitalism 9
Socialism Theories 11
Workers‘ State Theories 12
State Capitalism Theories 14
Third-System Theories 16 The Common Theory 19
Middle-Class Marxism 20
This Book 22.
Chapter 1 The Contradictions of Capitalism
1. Value and Wage Labor 25
Modes of Exploitation 26
The Labor Theory of Value 29
Contradictions of Value 32 Wage Labor 35
The Law of Inequality 37
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2. The Accumulation of Capital 39
Relative Surplus Value 40
Concentration and Centralization 42
Capitalist Communism 44
The Question of Competition 49
Competition and Value 52.
3. Capitalism’s Crises 54
The Crisis Cycle 54
Underconsumptionism 57
Disproportionality 59
The Falling Rate of Profit 61
The Value Dilemma 65
Chapter 2 The Revolutionary Epoch
1. The Epoch of Capitalist Decay 68
The Theory of Decay 68 The Socialization of Capital 71
Decay and the Laws of Capital 75 State Capitalism 79.
2. Imperialism 83
Revisionism 84
Theories of Imperialism 85
Lenin’s „Imperialism“ 88
Imperialism and the Laws of Capital 90
The Limits of Nationalism 94
3. Permanent Revolution 95
The Split in Socialism 95
Trotsky’s Theory 98
Permanent Revolution and the Epoch 100
The Revolutionary Party 103
Petty Bourgeoisie vs. Working Class 105
The Marxism of the Intelligentsia 107.
Chapter 3 The Transition to Socialism
1. Marxist Theory of Transition 111
Socialism and Value 112 Socialist Inequality 114
The Workers‘ State 118
The Workers‘ State and Socialism 120
Dictatorship and Democracy 122
Political Economy of a Workers‘ State 124
Mandel’s Theory 127
Cliff’s Theory 129
The Paradox of a Workers‘ State 131.
2. The Struggle for the Soviet State 133
Initial Bolshevik Policies 133
„State Capitalism“ 136
The Originsof Bureaucratic Decay 140
The Left Opposition 143
Socialism in One Country 145
Socialist Accumulation 147
Bukharin’s Conservatism 149.
Chapter 4 The Stalinist Counterrevolution
1. The Political Counterrevolution 153
Social vs. Political Counterrevolution 153
Revolution from Above 157
Left Interpretations 160
The Bureaucratic Danger 161
Stalinism in Crisis 165
The Nature of the Communist Parties 166
Soviet Bonapartism 167
2. The Counterrevolution Completed 170
Domestic Right Turn 171
Competition and Inequality in Labor 172
Stalinist Planning 175
Soviet Law 177
The Great Purge 180
The New Bureaucracy 181
Counterrevolution Triumphant 183.
3. Trotsky’s Last Analysis 185
Counterrevolutionary Stalinism 185
The Stalinist Economy 188
A New Class Society? 191.
Chapter 5 Stalinist Capitalism
1. Pseudo-Socialist Capitalism 195
The Social Goal of Production 196
Pseudo-Planning 198
Consumer Goods 200
Declining Accumulation 202
The FRP and Fictitious Capital 204
Overproduction and Crises 206
Unemployment 209
Women Workers 211.
2. The Law of Value under Stalinism 212
Capital Flows 213
The Two-Sector Theory
215 Production for Use 217
Use-Value Theories 219
Value without Wage Labor 220
Non-Capitalist Competition 224
The Bureaucrats‘ Law of Value 226
Evading the Law of Value 230
3. The Stalinist Ruling Class 232
Bureaucracy as Ruling Class 233
Bourgeoisie and Bureaucracy 235
From Fascism to Senility 237
Nationalized Property and its Devolution 240
Chapter 6 Stalinism and the Postwar World
1. Defeat of the Working Class 243
Imperialism between the Wars 243
Stalinism and World War II244
Stalinism after the War 247
From Alliance to Cold War 249
The Stalinist Parties 252
Permanent Revolution Extended 254.
2. Postwar Imperialism 256
The Unexpected Boom 257
Fictitious Capital 259
The End of the Boom 262
Lenin’s Theory Revisited 264
Third Worldism 268.
3. Stalinist Imperialism 270
The Imperialism of Backwardness 271
Soviet Imperialism and Lenin’s Theory 274
Alternative Theories 276
Defense of the Soviet Union? 278
Stalinist Nationalism 280
Empire in Retreat 282
Imperialist Realignment 284
Chapter 7 The Degeneration of Trotskyism
1. Theories of a New Epoch 289
The Fourth International 290
Postwar Adaptations 292
Neo-Capitalism 293
The Permanent Arms Economy 296
The End of Imperialism? 301
Military State Capitalism 304
Bukharinism vs. Kautskyism 307
2. Deformed Workers‘ State Theory 310
The „People’s Democracies“ 310
The Date Question 312
The „Workers‘ Government“ 315
Bureaucratic Revolution 318
Trotsky on China 320
The End of the Fourth International 324
The Petty-Bourgeois Vanguard 327
Pabloism Summed Up 329
Chapter 8 The Breakdown of Stalinism
1. Programs for Reform 332
Solidarity and the MKS 333
Self-Management Proposals 335
Self-Management in Practice 337
The Novosibirsk Report 340
Gorbachev’s Perestroika 343
Perestroika and Glasnost 347
2. Post-Stalinist Capitalism 349
The Reforms Elsewhere 349
The Future of Post-Stalinism 351
Reforms and the Nature of Stalinism 354
3. Program for Revolution 357
Social vs. Political Revolution 357
Transitional Demands 360
Workers‘ Soviets 364
Internationalism 366
Democracy vs. Revolution 368
Rank and Filism vs. Revolution 373
In Conclusion 375.