Stephen Resnick and Richard Wolff once wrote that Marxism is "sustained by its dialectical opposite, its capitalist other, whose contradictions and crises have always both threatened and invigorated Marxist theory and Marxist organization" (123).

Writing shortly after the fall of the U.S.S.R.,  Resnick and Wolff argued that the collapse of Soviet state capitalism did nothing to change the fact that "the current spurt of capitalist development will, like all previous spurts, sooner or later entail the parallel revival of its other — Marxism" (119).