[lbo-talk] Overpaid soviet workers?

[heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk]

I see that Chris knows a lot of intellectuals who think that the working class were overpaid and lazy in the soviet era. I too have met middle class people who thought that workers were overpaid. I've also met people who are nostaglic for the 1940s and 1950s in Britain, and weave fairy stories to themselves about how we were all better off then. No doubt some people have ostalgia for the Stalin era, too. But a wiser person might have taken this with a pinch of salt.