Henry Park
"Secondary Literature on the Question of the Restoration of Capitalism in the Sovie Union"
Research in Political Economy
(Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1987), p. 55.

"Growth in the USSR's Gross Social Product has decelerated.
Also, 'annual consumption increased by only 1.6% between 1976
and 1980 vs. 4.7% between 1966 and 1970' (Bettelheim, 1985, p. 53).
It may be just a matter of time before business cycles with positive
and negatie growth phases start to appear. If so, the Soviets' years
of growth since the state capitalist counterrevolution may not be any
more unusual than some booms in industrializing countries."

[Why this quote was right: Soon after publication in 1987,
Gorbachev said that the Soviet Union was in fact in a first-time
recession, if Vodka consumption and oil exports were excluded.
The following years showed indeed an immediate collapse of the
economy, more akin to a depression than a recession.

At the time, MIM distributed the paper above, Revolutionary Union's
"Red Papers #7," Bill Bland's work, the work of 
Martin Nicholaus and anything else it could get its hands on that
was anti-revisionist. However, the 1980s when MIM started were a time
when many organizations following Mao dissolved or became pro-Soviet
revisionists. The fashion was if anything to move from Maoism to a position
even more ridiculous than that of Ludo Martens today, because
at the time, countless ex-Maoists could be found saying
"capitalist restoration is impossible," in addition to saying
"why is there no unemployment or recessions in the Soviet Union then?"
(Ludo Martens has the benefit of hindsight and can say that it is ridiculous
to say capitalist restoration is impossible, but otherwise, he represents
what these ex-Maoists in the 1980s had become.)]