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According to the New York Times Professor Richard Wolff is America's leading Marxist Economist. He wrote a book with the late Professor Resnick about this: Class Theory and History: Resnick, Stephen A., Wolff, Richard D.: 9780415933186: Amazon.com: Books I can summarize his view of the USSR. That the USSR was not really socialist; it was state capitalist. The state replaced the private capitalist and related to the worker as an employer-employee relationship. Lenin admitted as much right before he died. He tried to make the transition but he had several strokes and died. Professor Richard Wolff calls for worker cooperatives like Mondragon cooperative in Spain. You can see a lot of his podcasts on youtube. Here are a few: Master-Slave Dialectic in Capitalism and What to Do About It Left Forum 2019, Lenin: His Works' Pertinence Here and Now Michael Parenti's book Blackshirts and Reds