Observations on the theoretical foundations of the Bolshevik project of transition to social-ism

Authors

  • Martín Duer Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas; Universidad Nacional de San Martín

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.52885/2683-9164.v1.n21.33946

Keywords:

Erfurtianism, political maturation of the proletariat, historical premises of the transition to socialism

Abstract

Starting from the historiographic contributions related to the incidence of the programmatic elements in the evolution of the Soviet formation during its first decade of existence, the present work proposes an investigation of the theoretical assumptions that served as the basis for the Bolshevik political platform. The conceptions that this party shared with the European social democratic current explain the meaning of its programmatic prescriptions. From this perspective, it will be argued that this common theoretical background sheds light on the predictions of the Russian communists regarding both the establishment of a workers’ leadership over the “bourgeois specialists” and the consolidation of State Monopoly Capitalism and of the scientific management of the labour process, conceiving these last modalities as historical premises from which the transition to socialism must inevitably be founded.

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2021-07-19

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Observations on the theoretical foundations of the Bolshevik project of transition to social-ism. (2021). Anuario Del Centro De Estudios Históricos Profesor Carlos S. A. Segreti, 1(21), 50-71. https://doi.org/10.52885/2683-9164.v1.n21.33946