The Restoration of Capitalism in the Soviet Union

INTRODUCTION............................................................................................................................................................................................ 3
CHAPTER 1: The Abolition of Centralised Economic Planning............................................................................................................... 10
3: The "Socialist Market"............................................................................................................................................................................ 24
4: Payment for Production Assets.............................................................................................................................................................. 30
5: Credit and Interest................................................................................................................................................................................. 35
6: Ownership of the Means of Production ................................................................................................................................................. 41
7: The New Soviet Capitalist....................................................................................................................................................................... 45
8: Freedom to Hire and Fire ....................................................................................................................................................................... 46
9: The Primitive Accumulation of Capital ................................................................................................................................................... 49
11: The Value of Labour Power.................................................................................................................................................................. 50
12: The Price of Labour Power................................................................................................................................................................... 52
13: Managerial Salaries.............................................................................................................................................................................. 57
14: "Price Control" ..................................................................................................................................................................................... 59
15: The Retention of Profit by the Enterprise ............................................................................................................................................ 65
16: "Economic Incentives" ......................................................................................................................................................................... 66
17: "Socialist Profit" ................................................................................................................................................................................... 67
18: The Distribution of "Socialist Profit" .................................................................................................................................................... 72
19: "Divide and Rule" ................................................................................................................................................................................. 77
20: Anti-Semitism....................................................................................................................................................................................... 78
21: Corporatism ......................................................................................................................................................................................... 79
22: The Social Services ............................................................................................................................................................................... 81
23: Environmental Pollution....................................................................................................................................................................... 86
24: "Moral Stimuli"..................................................................................................................................................................................... 88
25: Economic Coercion............................................................................................................................................................................... 93
26: National Discrimination........................................................................................................................................................................ 94
27: "The International Division of Labour"................................................................................................................................................. 99
28: Investment......................................................................................................................................................................................... 102
30: The Concentration and Centralisation of Capital ............................................................................................................................... 109
31: Soviet Monopoly Capitalism............................................................................................................................................................... 114
32: A "Superfluity of Capital" ................................................................................................................................................................... 118
33: The Exploitation of the Working Class................................................................................................................................................ 119
34: The Market Problem .......................................................................................................................................................................... 123
35: The Class Structure of Contemporary Soviet Society ......................................................................................................................... 125
36: The Role of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union....................................................................................................................... 126
37: The Character of the Soviet State....................................................................................................................................................... 127
38: CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................................................................... 130