Government cuts - 'Are they really as stupid as they seem', by Hillel Ticktin
There are a surprising lack of convincing explanations as to why the capitalist class is pushing through the present unprecedented austerity drive - even at the risk of provoking both mass opposition and a double-dip recession. The following excerpts, from Hillel Ticktin's recent articles in Critique, do offer an interesting partial explanation:
Political consciousness and its conditions at the present time - Hillel Ticktin
Why are the working class not turning against the real cause of their misery — capitalism — as they have done in the past?
Towards a political economy of Stalinism - Paul B Smith
Submitted by messenger2 on Feb 15 2010 20:19
Paul B.Smith reviews Hillel Ticktin's book: Origins of the Crisis in the USSR: Essays on the Political Economy of a Disintegrating System (from Radical Chains no.4).
Decline as a Concept - and Its Consequences - Hillel Ticktin
This article produces a summary of a theory of decline of capitalism.
Political Economy of a Disintegrating Stalinism by Hillel Ticktin
Submitted by blebber on Feb 15 2010 15:40
A Marxist analysis of Putin's Russia.
A Marxist Political Economy of Capitalist Instability and the Current Crisis - Hillel Ticktin
Hillel Ticktin on a Marxist political economy of the financial crisis of 2008-9 and capitalism's uncertain future.
What was the USSR? Part II: Russia as a non-mode of production
Submitted by libcom on Apr 9 2005 13:30
Aufheben critique Hillel Ticktin's analysis of the Soviet Union. Having disposed of the theory of the USSR as a 'degenerated workers' state', Ticktin's theory presents itself as the most persuasive alternative to the understanding of the USSR as capitalist.
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