Ideologies / Trotskyist / Tony Cliff
§ The minds · 1917–2000 · Palestine / UK · Party leader & theorist
Tony Cliff
State capitalism
The USSR was never socialist.
Economic−92
SocialistMarket
Governance+50
LibertarianAuthoritarian
Social+60
TraditionalProgressive
The founder of British Trotskyism's largest strand, whose 'state capitalism' thesis reframed the USSR as a class society and inspired 'socialism from below.'
social
New-left progressive, rank-and-file unionism.
economic
Argued the Soviet bloc was 'state capitalist', not workers' states.
governance
'Socialism from below' through a revolutionary party.
Notable for
- State-capitalism theory
- Founded the Socialist Workers Party (UK)
- 'Socialism from below'
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