Eventually they came to argue that the Russian state was by the late 1930s state capitalist and was not to be defended.

Another early analysis the USSR as state capitalist came from various groups advocating left communism.

The left communist/council communist traditions outside Russia consider the Soviet system as state capitalist.

The minority opinion, held by James, Dunayevskaya, and Lee, held that it was state capitalist.

The supporters of the "state-cap" interpretation keep changing their arguments about why Soviet-type societies are state capitalist, making their case true by definition.

It has its origins in the Trotskyist left but regarded the Soviet Union as state capitalist.

It developed the viewpoint that Russia was state capitalist.

Instead they classified it as state capitalist.

Some Communist states claimed to have abolished capitalism, although by definition these countries are state capitalist.

Other Trotskyists, while agreeing that these states could not be described as socialist, deny that they were state capitalist.