I’ve participated in an interesting discussion of the Rockhill book on another list. Ironically, like many of the Western Marxists he criticizes, my impression is that Rockhill doesn’t appreciate that Western Marxist idealism is primarily an effect rather than the cause of the failure of the world socialist revolution to begin in the advanced capitalist countries. Nor does he seem to accept that the social revolutions which instead broke out in the predominantly peasant periphery would inevitably develop the political deformations common to less developed states under military and economic siege. If he does recognize that China, Vietnam, Cuba and the other post-revolutionary states have all made significant concessions to capitalism at home and abroad, they have not altered his view that these states represent “actually existing socialism”.
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