----- Original Message ----- From: "Gar Lipow" <lipowg at sprintmail.com> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 4:31 PM Subject: Subject: Mobility in "socialist" eastern europ
> Gee reverse discrimination. But note that Pary members had no such
> criteria. The fact that there was a question of social mobility at all
> is a pretty good indicator that "Communism" had a pretty strong caste
> system, and probably a class one. In a truly classless (or casteless)
> society - even a socialist one, let alone a communist one - the question
> of social mobility would not arise.
Damn. I was finding it so amusing that no one had bothered to mention this.
-- Luke