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organizations are crushed. Like a degenerated workers' state, a deformed workers' state is considered to be a state that cannot be transitioning to socialism...

workers' state" commonly refers only to the Soviet Union. Trotskyists of the Fourth International (founded in 1938) coined the term "deformed workers'...

were deformed workers' states based on the same relations of production as the Soviet Union. Some Trotskyists such as the Committee for a Workers' International...

was a deformed workers' state, the supporters of the SWP argued that Cuban Revolution was a full workers' revolution and that the Cuban state was a genuine...

precepts of socialism, Trotsky characterized the Soviet Union as a deformed workers' state that would not be able to effectively transition to socialism....

holding that the Soviet Union was a degenerated workers' state and other similar societies are deformed workers' states. However, many other Trotskyist groups...

bourgeoisie: the workers, who own no means of production, must use the property of others to produce goods and services and to earn their living. Workers cannot...

socialist property are enemies of the people." The term "enemy of the workers" was formalized in the Article 58 (RSFSR Penal Code), and similar articles...

19th century. In Western Europe, the working class had become poorer; the workers and their trade unions, although they had continued to militate for better...

the communists propose to join with all workers belonging to other parties and groups and all unaligned workers in a common struggle to defend the immediate...

socialism Edward Bellamy Bureaucratic collectivism Degenerated workers' state Deformed workers' state Libertarian socialism Marxism–Leninism New class Planned...

the capitalists exploit the workers, while the workers resist their economic exploitation, which occurs because the worker owns no means of production...

degenerated workers' state. After World War II, most Trotskyists accepted an analysis of the Soviet bloc countries as being deformed workers' states. However...

This reflects his view that these countries are state capitalist societies rather than deformed workers states. Cliff's views have been criticised by more...

Armed Forces in 1944-45 had by 1948 become what they described as deformed workers' states. In the uncertain aftermath of World War II, when the Trotskyists...

not necessarily unrelatedly – Trotsky's theories regarding the deformed workers' state, offer several explanations as to why the world revolution has...

revolution, according to Marxists, is to transform the bourgeois state into a workers' state. A traditional Marxist belief was that a proletarian revolution...

worker. In pre-capitalist economies, exploitation of the worker was achieved via physical coercion. Under the capitalist mode of production, workers do...

understand what was happening, so I pitied that kind of person. They brought workers and peasants into the meetings, and they could not understand what was...

unconditional military defense of China, which they regarded as a deformed workers state, qualitatively similar to the USSR after it underwent its bureaucratic...