By Michael Roberts * Over the next few posts, I aim to review a number of books published in the last year on key aspects of Marxist economic theory. I start with dependency theory. Dependency theory emerged in the 1960s and 1970s as a critique of ‘modernisation’ theory, which argued that poor countries could develop by following the same path ...
The USSR’s most important contribution to humanity The most important contribution of the Soviet Union to humanity is that for the first time the Scientific Socialist theory was put into practice in a country, proving in practice that socialism can be constructed. The USSR became the most important model of the ideal of an equal, just and non-exploitative world. Also, ...
By Sergio Rodriguez Gelfenstein * Many important issues were discussed at the recently concluded 20th Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). Chinese and foreign analysts have written extensively on the subject. As almost always when giving an opinion about China, the analyzes mostly deal with state issues that – in this case – were discussed at the event. ...