Post-1956 Soviet theory relocated the primary contradiction to inter-state competition

Evidence

The main contradiction was now said to be not between capital and labour, nor between the capitalist and the socialist systems of production, but between the socialist and capitalist system of states, condensed in the competition between the United States and the USSR. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 576

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the post-Twentieth-Party-Congress redefinition of the ‘main contradiction’ away from class toward inter-state rivalry — the theoretical pivot the whole Three Worlds taxonomy rests on.

Related

• The world forms one contradictory capitalist unity, not three separate worlds (similarity 0.78)
• Post-Soviet ‘convergence’ of sorts happened only via dismantling the Soviet state (similarity 0.78)