[lbo-talk] Gorbachev: I Should Have Left the Communist Party Earlier

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Thu Aug 18 10:57:09 PDT 2011


----- Original Message ----- From: "Wojtek S" <wsoko52 at gmail.com>

Indeed - this was perhaps one the biggest paradoxes of history - the Communists whose claim for fame was the belief that capitalism sows the seeds of its own destruction themselves sowed the seeds of their own destruction - the intelligentsia that they created almost from the scratch turned into the force that eventually did its creators in.

-------------- Right, but this intelligentia was not created from scratch; they were mostly the educated children of a former privileged layer. And they retained, in the marrow of their bones, the whole slavish worship of power and privilege.

Joanna



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