What is the Difference between State-Capitalism and Fascism?

Fascism was a particular political form in capitalism which emerged out of the crises in global capital working class revolutions from WWI through the 30s.

There is a thorough definition of it to be found here: https://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/f/a.htm (you have to scroll down a bit)

There are various definitions of what state-capitalist means. The Forrest-Johnson tendency (CLR James, Raya Dunayevskaya primarily) developed the most thorough and sound theory on state-capitalism in the USSR. PDF of their book discussing it is here: https://libcom.org/files/State%20capitalism%20and%20world%20revolution%20-%20CLR%20James.pdf

Their arguments centered on the various capitalist forms which still existed in the USSR: money, wages, profit, exchange according to value, class stratification, etc.

Their main arguments:

(a) As the Social-Democrats were the labor bureaucracy of monopoly capitalism, the Stalinists are the labor bureaucracy of the period of "vast state-capitalist trusts and syndicates. "

(b) The Stalinists are not class-collaborationists, fools, cowards, idiots, men with "supple spines ," but conscious clear-sighted aspirants for world-power. They are deadly enemies of private property capitalism. They aim to seize the power and take the place of the bourgeoisie.

(c) But the Stalinists are not proletarian revolutionists. They aim to get power by help, direct or indirect, of the Red Army and the protection of Russia and the Russian state. That is the reason why they follow the foreign policy of the Kremlin - it is sheer naked self-interest.

(d) Theirs is a last desperate attempt under the guise of "socialism" and "planned economy" to reorganize the means of production without releasing the proletariat from wage-slavery. Historical viability they have none; for state ownership multiplies every contradiction of capitalism .

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