File spoon-archives/marxism.archive/marxism_1995/95-03-31.000, message 394


Subject: Re: General/chaos
From: Paul Cockshott <wpc-AT-clyder.gn.apc.org>
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 95 20:40:59 GMT


Ron Press wrote:
>I submit that the birth of the USSR took place in the midst of the
>chaos of the first world war. This gave rise to the system of
>Soviets. This was also unique for it's time. The abandonment of
>the Soviet system and it's transformation into the dictatorship of
>the party (it was supposed to be the proletariat) lead to the
>ultimate disaster of recent years.

One could equally argue that it was the transformation of the
soviet system to one in which the soviets were dominated by the
communist party ( the soviets of course continued to exist ),
was what enabled the soviet union to survive and transform
itself into a socialist industrial state.

I think that the idea of a soviet republic without communist
party domination, whilst possible, is unlikely to be long lived.
Wherever soviets have been dominated by other parties, bourgeois
rule either survived or returned.


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