• political theory, a degenerated workers' state is a dictatorship of the proletariat in which the working class' democratic control over the state has given way...
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  • organizations are crushed. Like a degenerated workers' state, a deformed workers' state is considered to be a state that cannot be transitioning to socialism...
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    the USSR under Joseph Stalin was still innately proletarian, a "degenerated workers' state." They included Max Shachtman, who became the new group's leader...
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  • was a degenerated workers' state. After World War II, most Trotskyists accepted an analysis of the Soviet bloc countries as being deformed workers' states...
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    deformed workers states in an analogy with the degenerated workers state in Russia. The term deformed was used rather than degenerated, because no workers' revolution...
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  • party." Deformed workers' state Degenerated workers' state Kleptocracy New class Oligarchy Soviet bureaucracy State capitalism State socialism Ernest...
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  • of the SWP, Tony Cliff, to reject the idea that the USSR was a degenerated workers' state, the position held by other Trotskyists and derived from Leon...
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    IST adopting the position that it was a "state capitalist" economy, rather than a "degenerated workers' state" along with their theories of the "permanent...
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    Union was, at that time, a "deformed workers' state" or degenerated workers' state, and not a socialist republic or state, because the "bureaucracy wrested...
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  • American supporter James P. Cannon described the Soviet Union as a "degenerated workers' state", the revolutionary gains of which should be defended against...
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  • the communists propose to join with all workers belonging to other parties and groups and all unaligned workers in a common struggle to defend the immediate...
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  • ruling class distinct from the workers and reject Trotsky's description of Stalinist Russia as a "degenerated workers' state". Shachtmanism originated as...
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    Betrayed (1936), he argued that the Soviet Union had become a "degenerated workers' state", and in 1938 founded the Fourth International as an alternative...
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  • Soviet Union Degenerated workers' state Deformed workers' state Managerial state New Soviet man Sinyavsky, Andrei (1991). "Stalin: The State–Church". Soviet...
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  • the railways and factories, the workers must demand that these railways and factories simply be confiscated by the state without compensation as the property...
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  • Marxism United front Vanguardism Trotskyist Deformed workers' state Degenerated workers' state French Turn Permanent revolution Social revolution Transitional...
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    Marxist organization which argued that the Soviet Union was not a "degenerated workers' state" (as orthodox Trotskyists argue) but rather "bureaucratic collectivism...
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    bourgeoisie: the workers, who own no means of production, must use the property of others to produce goods and services and to earn their living. Workers cannot...
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  • Trotskyist schools call those countries degenerated workers' states to contrast them with proper socialism (i.e. workers' states), while other Marxists and...
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  • considered the Soviet degenerated workers' state still as "revolutionary workers' state" or "proletarian dictatorship". As such, the Soviet state was "historically...
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  • holding that the Soviet Union was a degenerated workers' state and other similar societies are deformed workers' states. However, many other Trotskyist...
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  • "degenerated workers' state" on the basis that, although maintaining that it held onto some aspects of a revolutionary workers' state (such as state control...
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  • revolutionary vanguard party, composed of the most conscious and disciplined workers, must lead the proletariat in overthrowing capitalism and establishing...
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    the capitalists exploit the workers, while the workers resist their economic exploitation, which occurs because the worker owns no means of production...
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  • C. L. R. James (category Members of the Workers Party (United States))
    view of the Soviet Union as a degenerated workers' state. He left the SWP along with Max Shachtman, who formed the Workers' Party (WP). Within the WP, James...
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    and criticized the Soviet Union under Khrushchev and his successors as state capitalist and social imperialist. During the Sino-Soviet split, the Communist...
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    The Committee for a Workers' International (CWI; Spanish: Comité por una Internacional de los Trabajadores, or CIT; French: Comité pour une internationale...
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  • a degenerated workers' state. Although a small ruling class had taken control, the Soviet Union had made (social revolutionary) gains for workers and...
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    defence of the Soviet Union by Trotskyists internationally as a "(degenerated) workers' state," Vietnamese Trotskyists muted their criticism of the Viet Minh...
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    Stalinism (redirect from Stalinist state)
    socialist nor communist but a bureaucratized degenerated workers' state—that is, a non-capitalist state in which exploitation is controlled by a ruling...
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