Working Class

[Joe R. Golowka]

> it simply proves that workers are better off when ruled by a coordinator
> class than when ruled by a capitalist class; they are better off still
> when ruled no other class, but instead rule themselves. One the points
> that has been made is that a small elite decided to transform the Soviet
> Union from a "whatever it was" empire into a bunch of capitalist
> fragments. It was not decided by the working class as a whole - or by
> democratically chosen representatives of the working class. What better
> proof do you want that the old Soviet Union was a Coordinator state,
> rather that a workers state?

What's your critique of the position that the USSR was state-capitalist as opposed to being ruled by
a coordinator class?

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Joe R. Golowka
JoeG at ieee.org
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