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. --- from list marxism-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- ------------------
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