IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

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Socialist Challenge No. 121, 8 November 1979 · p. 10 of the scan · 164 words

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page 10 of the scan

Duncan Hallas fails to explain how a society without capital or capitalists, and in which, according to Cliff in his book State Capitalism in Russia, the law or value las Doch suppressco l favour of state planning, can exist int any form.

But the rejection theory of Stalinist necessarily leads to a rejection of the theory of permanent Since the mode of production China and Cuba, for qualitatively the same as in Russia, Hallas and the SWP must explain how state castransin arose.

Socialist Challenge 8 November 1979 Page 10 have been SWP. the puzzle capitalism theory of state of Trotsky's explain how degeneration revolution.

revolution. remarkable writers example, La peasant movement!

But in Cuba and China these tasks accomplished. For the How? Their explanation, to be consistent with the capitalism, has wasn't On China, Hallas comes up with a theory. Other SWP pointed the . LO overwhelmingly peasant composition of the Chinese insurrectionary army. But Hallas is emphatic: '1949 was not

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