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It’s here: Dialogue with Stalin, the Communist Left’s rigorous reply to Stalin’s late attempt to give the Soviet economy a “Marxist” justification. Written as a three-day dialogue, it goes back to Marx’s basic categories of commodity, value and surplus value to ask whether a society that keeps money, markets and the law of value can be called socialist at all, and concludes that the USSR represents a specific form of state-directed capitalism rather than a workers’ state.
From this starting point the text draws out the political consequences: Stalinism as the doctrine of a counterrevolution that ties workers everywhere to Moscow’s state interests, and “socialism in one country” as the ideological cover for that process. For readers who want a clear, uncompromising account of what became of the Russian Revolution and what socialism must actually mean, this book offers a compact and exact restatement of the Marxist position.
