Working class

[joanna bujes]

At 04:09 AM 07/02/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>There's never been a Marxist party, much less Marxists in power, who have
>ever proposed anything for the economy that was not in the interest of a 
>new ruling class as opposed
>to workers. A Marxist would look at that and say, "That tells us something.""

I'm not sure how or whether you are distinguishing Marxists from 
communists, but every marxist/comm. regime I know of is responsible for 
providing education, healthcare, and social support for everyone. One 
reason why ex-communist states are such juicy investment deals is because 
of the very high skill level of the population. One reason why life 
expectancy in the former SU declined by about 15 years (!!!) is because 
these services were taken away.

I do not disagree that the nomenclatura gathers many privileges for itself, 
but compare that with the privileges of western billionaires...and have a 
good laugh. I am by no means pleading for the wonderfulness of existing 
(dictatorial) communist regimes; but to say that they did nothing for 
workers is ridiculous.

Joanna