Class Theory and History - Capitalism and Communism in the USSR (Hardcover)

Class Theory and History takes an ambitious and ground-breaking look at the entire history of the Soviet Union and presents a new kind of analysis of the history of the USSR: examining its birth, evolution, and death in class terms. Utilizing the class analytics they have developed over the last three decades, Resnick and Wolff formulate the most fully developed economic theory of communism now available. Their initial, and controversial, conclusion - Soviet industry never established a communist class structure - then leads to a discussion on the future of private capitalism, state capitalism and communism.