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Class and Politics in the Periphery and the Transition to Socialism

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  • James F. Petras
  • James F. Petras

    (Department of Sociology State University of New York at Binghamton Binghamton, New York)

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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.

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  • James F. Petras & James F. Petras, 1976. "Class and Politics in the Periphery and the Transition to Socialism," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 8(2), pages 20-35, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:8:y:1976:i:2:p:20-35
    DOI: 10.1177/048661347600800202
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