Class and Politics in the Periphery and the Transition to Socialism

James F. Petras and James F. Petras
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James F. Petras: Department of Sociology State University of New York at Binghamton Binghamton, New York

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1976, vol. 8, issue 2, 20-35

Abstract: Focusing on class relationships and the state, this article outlines a perspective for the transition to socialism in the periphery. Inequalities on a world scale and the penetration and interlock of class structures leave little room for peaceful transition. The class-anchored state is identified as playing a pivotal role in the consolidation of the revolution. The need to proceed beyond nationalization to 'demodernize' and 'uproot' rather than merely socialize production is a result of imperial capital's distorted ecological, demographic and productive structures. Alternative 'state capitalist', 'peasant-based revolu tionary' theories of transition are criticized in the course of a revised conception of the role of workers in twentieth century revolution in the Third World.

Date: 1976
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DOI: 10.1177/048661347600800202

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