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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: The Aims and Achievements of Gorbachev -- 2. Theory and Concept -- Western Sovietology -- The Concepts Used in This Work -- 3. The Nature of Social Control in the USSR -- The Question of Ideology -- Stalinism and Its Disintegration -- Atomization -- 4. The Nonpolitical Politics of the Soviet Elite -- Factions and the Emergence of Opposing Currents and Parties -- The Ligachev-Yeltsin Rivalry -- The Nature of the Soviet Elite and Its Factions -- The Nature of the Party and Political Differences

This book attempts to make a non-Stalinist Marxist analysis of South African political economy. For this purpose, it begins with a discussion of theories of racial discrimination and outlines the theory informing this book. It then provides a brief history relevant to the theory. Chapters on the nature of capital in South Africa and then on the nature of labour follow. These chapters are succeeded by one which deals with the programmes of political parties as well as the forms of change proposed and introduced by the state. The position of South Africa in the world economy follows and the last two chapters discuss the question of consciousness and alternative strategies for change. The thesis put forward is that the peculiar social relations of South Africa are to be understood as a twentieth century solution to the capital/worker relation. (DÜI-Hff)