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Old 01-17-2022, 10:02 AM   #75298 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by jadis View Post
In a dictatorship like the USSR the means of production were in the hands of the party leadership, so neither applies here. Which is my entire point in this thread: don't trust trans-historical ideological fictions.
Nah it would apply, just not in the way the USSR would have said it did. Party officials as the owning class would be some form of bourgeoisie.
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There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.
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