The Soviet Union: Socialist or Social-Imperialist?: Part I Essays Toward the Debate on the Nature of Soviet Society

Compiled By The Editors Of The Communist. Continued By: The Soviet Union : Socialist Or Social-imperialist? Part Ii : The Question Is Joined--full Text Of The New York City Debate, May 1983. Includes Bibliographical References. Table of Contents Preface I. II. III. IV. NOTES Soviet Socialism and Proletarian Internationalism The Soviet Social Formation A Look at the Evidence The Nature of Socialism INTERNATIONALISM OR SOCIAL IMPERIALISM The Export of Capital Soviet Foreign Assistance to the Less Developed Countries Soviet Foreign Trade Trade Relations with the Eastern European Countries Economic Assistance to Eastern Europe Co-ordinated Planning Economic Development Conclusion Soviet Economic Relations With India and Other Third World Countries ADVANTAGES TO USSR TO TRADE WITH THE THIRD WORLD (a) Soviet Imports Provide Raw Materials for Industry (b) Soviet Aid Creates Market for Soviet Machinery Exports (c) Aid, Balance of Trade, and Balance of Payments (d) Prices at which Soviets Trade (e) Profitability of Soviet Aid II SOVIET AID TO INDIA (a) Terms of Aid (b) Excess Costs (c) Recent Credit Agreements (d) Composition of Trade (e) Soviet Advantages in Trade (f) India Bears Risk of Currency Devaluation (g) Trade Creation Versus Export Diversion (h) Tighter Links Between Indian Production and Soviet Needs (a) Imperialism is Export of Capital as a Social Relation (b) Soviet Form of Capital Export (c) A More Advanced Form of Internationalisation of Capital? (d) Redividing World Economy (e) Soviet Theory of Foreign Economic Relations (a) Soviet Aid Reinforces Indian Capitalists (b) Soviet Aid Reinforces Unequal Division of Labor (c) Military Aid V CONCLUSION The "Tarnished Socialism" Thesis or The Political Economy of Soviet Social-Imperialism I Il Ill CLASS STRUGGLE UNDER SOCIALISM AND THE NEW BOURGEOISIE PROFIT IN COMMAND OF THE ECONOMY THE SOVIET RULING CLASS SOCIAL-IMPERIALISM: A SYSTEM, NOT A POLICY FOOTNOTES