From state socialism to capitalism: The role of class and the world system |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Key Laboratory of Hydraulic Machinery Transients, Ministry of Education, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China;2. Hubei Key Laboratory of Waterjet Theory and New Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China;3. School of Power and Mechanical Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China;1. Automotive Engineering Research Institute, Shaanxi Heavy Duty Automobile Co., Ltd, Xi''an 710200, China;2. School of Electrical and Power Engineering, China University of Mining and Technology, Xuzhou 221116, China;1. College of Electrical and Information Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, China;2. Key Laboratory of Gansu Advanced Control for Industrial Processes, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, China;3. National Experimental Teaching Center of Electrical and Control Engineering, Lanzhou University of Technology, Lanzhou 730050, China |
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| Abstract: | While theories of global capitalism have added a new dimension to our understanding of the dynamics of the modern world, a ‘globalisation’ approach to the transformation of the state socialist societies is relatively underdeveloped. This paper studies the role of international and global factors under state socialism and the world system in the pre-1989 period. The paper considers traditional Marxist approaches to the transition to capitalism and criticises the model of state capitalism as well as the world system approach. In contrast, social actors (the ‘acquisition’ and ‘administrative’ social strata and the global political elite)are identified as playing a major role in the fall of state socialism, and were a nascent capitalist class. The transformation of state socialism, it is contended, had the character of a revolution rather than a shift between different types of capitalism. |
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