The Soviet Union: Socialist or Social-Imperialist? : Essays Toward the Debate on the Nature of Soviet Society

Table of Contents
	Preface
	I.
	II.
	III.
	IV.
	NOTES
	Soviet Socialism and Proletarian Internationalism
	The Soviet Social Formation
	A Look at the Evidence
	The Nature of Socialism
	INTERNATIONALISM OR
	SOCIAL IMPERIALISM
	The Export of Capital
	Soviet Foreign Assistance to the Less Developed Countries
	Soviet Foreign Trade
	Trade Relations with the
	Eastern European Countries
	Economic Assistance to
	Eastern Europe
	Co-ordinated Planning
	Economic Development
	Conclusion
	Soviet Economic Relations With India and Other Third World Countries
	ADVANTAGES TO USSR TO TRADE WITH THE THIRD WORLD
	(a)	Soviet Imports Provide Raw Materials for Industry
	(b)	Soviet Aid Creates Market for Soviet Machinery Exports
	(c)	Aid, Balance of Trade, and Balance of Payments
	(d)	Prices at which Soviets Trade
	(e)	Profitability of Soviet Aid
	II
	SOVIET AID TO INDIA
	(a)	Terms of Aid
	(b)	Excess Costs
	(c)	Recent Credit Agreements
	(d)	Composition of Trade
	(e)	Soviet Advantages in Trade
	(f)	India Bears Risk of Currency Devaluation
	(g)	Trade Creation
	Versus Export Diversion
	(h)	Tighter Links Between
	Indian Production and Soviet Needs
	(a)	Imperialism is Export of Capital as a Social Relation
	(b)	Soviet Form of Capital Export
	(c)	A More Advanced Form of Internationalisation of Capital?
	(d)	Redividing World Economy
	(e)	Soviet Theory
	of Foreign Economic Relations
	(a)	Soviet Aid Reinforces
	Indian Capitalists
	(b)	Soviet Aid Reinforces Unequal Division of Labor
	(c)	Military Aid
	V
	CONCLUSION
	The "Tarnished Socialism" Thesis or The Political Economy of Soviet Social-Imperialism
	I
	Il
	Ill
	CLASS STRUGGLE UNDER SOCIALISM AND THE
	NEW BOURGEOISIE
	PROFIT IN COMMAND OF THE ECONOMY
	THE SOVIET RULING CLASS
	SOCIAL-IMPERIALISM: A SYSTEM, NOT A POLICY
	FOOTNOTES