Marx and Engels on Stalin's bureaucratic collectivist state capitalism
By: by Richard Ferguson
Language: eng
Number of pages: 14
Subjects: Collectivism; Socialism
Notes: Bureaucratic Collectivism is a theory of class society and was used by some Trotskyists to describe the nature of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin.

Max Shachtman was the first to call Russia a bureaucratic collectivist state in 1941 (the first writer to coin this term was the Italian Marxist, Bruno R, in his book La Bureaucratisation du Monde in 1939). A resolution on the Russian question passed at the 1941 Convention of his organization, the now-defunct Workers’ Party, stated: "From the standpoint of socialism, the bureaucratic collectivist state is a reactionary social order; in relation to the capitalist world, it is on an historically more progressive plane."