--- Wojtek Sokolowski <sokol at jhu.edu> wrote:
>
The Soviet
> 'Marxism" was really a
> variation on the traditional Russian peasant
> populism and collectivism,
> peppered with pseudo-scientific mumbo jumbo lifted
> from popular texts on
> political economy of the times.
>
You are so right. I'm reading Kaganovich's memoirs, and it's obvious. It's kind of sad, actually. He's so passionately convinced he's building a "socialist railroad system," which seems to not differ one iota from any other railroad system.
If I recall correctly, 60% (!) of the top (!) Party elite in Ukraine in the late 1920s had only a primary school education. Khrushchev had four years in a church school. Kaganovich had a few years in a school in a shtetl.
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