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On Mon, 30 Oct 2017 at 12:34 am, mkaradjis . via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> wrote: > > But I thought calling China neither a capitalist nor a workers state > but instead a “state capitalist state” was going well beyond > describing a different variety of “capitalist political regime”, but > rather a distinct kind of class state (apologies if I was mistaken > about that). The classic analysis of early Ba’athism as “state capitalism” is I think Isam al-Khafaji’s The State and Capitalist Development in Iraq 1968-1973. From a summary article: ‘The Iraqi state has been able to create capitalists out of its "barefoot" citizens, but this has not been sufficient to create capitalism. State capitalism has been a necessary transitional phase, ensuring the rise and expansion of this new mode of production’. http://www.merip.org/mer/mer142/state-incubation-iraqi-capitalism The use of the state by plebeian elements in a transitional phase to “incubate” a new private capitalist class *and* the structures for it to rule is I think the useful sense to the term “state capitalism”. That may have began in China in the late 70s but we’re way past that now. > _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
