From: Michael Pugliese <debsian at pacbell.net>
Instead, nationalization of the MOP, by a State-Party Apparatus that had congealed into a new Ruling Class, with all the economic and social privileges that our Rulers grab for themselves and their families. ^^^^^
To say that the Soviet nomenklatura had anything approaching the economic and social priviliges of Western elites is quite mad. They went to special shops and could buy Western goods. They weren't rolling around in Mercedes.