Classical Marxists used ‘state capitalism’ to mean something other than a post-capitalist system

Evidence

In fact neither Engels nor Bukharin nor Lenin, when they used the term `state capitalism’, was referring to a nonsocialist system which could succeed capitalism. Bukharin had only mentioned such a possibility once, in his Imperialism and World Economy, first published in 1918. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 307

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies that the term’s classical usage excluded a successor nonsocialist order — essential for tracking the Neumann-Pollock-Horkheimer dispute.
• XREF: connects to: Marxist theorists never meant state capitalism to describe a successor to capitalism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1173
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Marxist theorists never meant state capitalism to describe a successor to capitalism — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 1173

Broader Connections

• Marxist theorists never meant state capitalism to describe a successor to capitalism #corroborates (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 1173