Why read State Capitalism in Russia?
Many people still associate socialism and especially Marx's version of socialism with the brutal Stalinist regime in the Soviet Union.
Tony Cliff's book State Capitalism in Russia has enabled us to explain why the horrific crimes committed by the Stalinist regime had nothing to do with socialism. Instead Cliff argued that Russia under Stalin's rule became a particular form of capitalist society, state capitalism, locked into competition with its rivals in the West.