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Americans and socialism (lemmy.ml)
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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So the bolshevik state bureaucracy wasn't a new ruling class giving themselves privileges others didn't have?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    In the Marxist notion of "class," no, they did not form a class. The State is an extension of the class in power, not a class in and of itself. In the Soviet Union, that class was the Proletariat.

    Party members and Soviet officials did have privledges like higher pay, but in the Soviet Union this difference was only about 10 times between the richest and the poorest, unlike the 100s to 1000s or more in Tsarist Russia or the modern Russian Federation.

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  • [–] -3 points 2 years ago

    Soviet Union bureaucracy was not the proletariat, they didn't use the mop to produce commodities, so they didn't have proletarian class consciousness. Whatever interests they had, it was not working class interests. Lenin, Trotsky and Sverdlov were one nobleman and two petty bourgeoisie.

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