Date: Wed, 29 Jan 1997 22:27:32 +0000
Subject: Re: M-G: degenerate workers state (fwd)


Rob wrote:
> 
> I would like to consider myself a "Trotskyist" but don't necessarily
> sub*scribe
> to all of the dogma.  I too would consider the beaurocratic elite in all the
> communist countries a class - something that was looked at Djlas' (Tito's
> former right hand man) "The New Class" which proved the stalinist regimes as
> the ultimate hypocracy and condradictory states.  The communist elite was very
> protectionary of itself and acted - well like the bourgouisie - they were a
> ruling minority - and cared nothing for the under classes - something that is
> not trotskyist or socialist or initially communist etc....  I have never really
> read anything on this topic by trotsky - I'm just giving my opinion - not
> really a marxist analysis...
> Anyway  I find this all very interesting!!!!!


Glad to have another `Trotskyist' on board. You should read Trotsky's 
THE REVOLUTION BETRAYED to get Trotsky's views on why the stalinist 
bureaucracy was not a class, but a parasitic caste. 
Dave 


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