Political scientist Post argues that the Europe that is now being united was originally the product of the French Revolution in 1789-95, and was then formed by the emergent industrial capitalism. He explains that the further revolution of the new working class feared by industrial capitalists did not transpire because the working classes were incorporated as part of the dynamics of capitalist development. The communist prediction of revolution he attributes to the failed upsurges of 1848-49.
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• Preface - Crisis and Revolution - The Shift to Russia - The First Weak Link - The Missing Weak Link - The Fascist Gambit - Communists in Face of Fascists - National Socialism and Social Capital - A Diversity of Capitals - Tables - Bibliography - Index.
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A study of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the coming to power of the Nazis in Germany in 1933 in light of the marxist proposition that revolution would come in advanced capitalist societies. The implications of the actual cases for the theory are drawn out, and an original theorization of capitalist crisis combining economic and political factors is put forward.
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This book examines the "turn to the East" by the international communist movement in fostering world revolution after the success in Russia in 1917, which led to communist victories in China, Vietnam and Cuba after the Second World War. Based on a theorization of the building of revolutionary movements, this study critically assesses communist strategy and tactics using three key cases: China, India, and Brazil. While examining the foundations of what was, in fact, a historic turn not foreseen by Marx and Engels, it draws out implications for possible future developments in less-developed countries.
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• Preface - Acknowledgements - Strapping in for Takeoff - A Mid-Life Crisis - Getting Down to Basics - Totalities - Basic Determinations - A Global Reconstruction - Politics and Cognition - Consciousness and the Marxist Assumption of Proletarian Universality - Bibliography - Index.
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Proposing a reshaping of Marxist theory, this book conceptualizes human life in terms of four interrelated practices. It explores these in turn in the context of a capitalism divided into "centre" and "periphery", primarily through nine "theoretical reconstructions", which attempt to meet such problems as the labour theory value, the nature and role of the state, and consciousness.
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• Taking the strain US and Communist Viewpoints on the South as War Begins Between Two Giants Political and Military Action in the South A Transition Achieved The trial of battle in the South, 1965-67 US Strategy and Action, 1965-67 Hanoi and COSVN: The Military Line The Other Side of the US Effort: Pacification The Southern Regime Moves Towards Stabilisation Pacification, the Peasants and the Front NFL Organization Under Pressure Revolutionary Strategy Under Pressure The Situation on the Eve of Tet
• 1968 The Tet offensive and its aftermath The Meaning of the Offensive The Tet Events and May Follow-Up Was the First Half of
• 1968 A Turning-Point? The Second Half of
• 1968: the Antagonists' Perspectives Revolutionaries in Search of a New Position Vietnamization: Fighting and Pacifying The Revolution Settles into a New Track A Shift in Political Strategy Retrospect: A Key Strategical Shift The war takes a new shape Revolutionary Strategy and the Cambodian Challenge The Double Effort of the US Planners Fighting an Indochinese War the Revolutionary Political Effort The Saigon Regime's Search for Stability, 1970-72 The Saigon regime stands alone Late
• 1972: The Balance of Forces The Struggle in Paris An Impossible Enforcement: The Military Side of the Paris Agreement the Paris Agreement and Political Struggle The RVN as a Reforming Regime The final victory The Great Spring Victory Campaigns Between Zero and Infinity State Socialism - Complete or Qualified Failure? The RVN as a Post-Colonial Capitalist State Some Final Remarks Tables 2.1 US Economic Aid to the RVN, 1965-67 2.2 Composition of RVN revenue, 1965-67 2.3 NFL actions against local officials and others, 1965-67 2.4 'Open arms' defections, 1965-67 (1000s) 3.1 Defections from the revolutionary side, 1967-69 3.2 PLAF/PA battalion strength, 1967-69 3.3 PLAF/PA actions, 1967-69 4.1 Vietnamization: the Withdrawal of US Personnel 4.2 NFL Political Murders and Kidnappings, 1967-72 4.3 Registered Strikes in the RVN, 1969-73 4.4 US Economic Aid, 1968-72 4.5 RVN Food Crop Production and Rice Imports, 1965-74 5.1 US Economic Aid, 1973-5 Maps South Viet Nam provinces,
• 1965 Communist Military Regions.
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This final volume completes the history and analysis of the Vietnamese Revolution by bringing it up to final Communist victory in 1975. Although it deals with the relevant developments in the North, it basically concentrates on the struggle in the South following the massive US intervention in 1965. Unlike other analyses, it focuses primarily on the Vietnamese protagonists, the Communists and the Republic of Viet Nam, examining above all the questions of why the former were able to win and whether the latter could ever have been a viable regime.
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• 1. Socialism and Underdevelopment
• 2. The Seizure of Power
• 3. State Socialist Accumulation: the Resource-Constrained Economy
• 4. The Politics of State Socialist Societies Index.
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This book should be of interest to teachers and students of development studies, socialist economics, the Third World.
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The authors provide a critical analysis of socialist construction in underdeveloped countries. They bring together the insights of both development theory and the political economy of socialism to illustrate their theories. This book should be of interest to teachers and students of development studies, socialist economics, the Third World.
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