I can't recall reading a single news article or commentary in the Providence Journal dealing with Russia and China's obvious abandonment of the socialist / communist ideal and of historical materialism as a method of understanding the evolution of human society.
It is almost Orwellian bizarre this obstinate refusal of the present leaders of both Russia and China to explain and justify their New Faith to the world. But Faith in what: global capitalism? Since both countries are still officially atheist I am left with the ludicrous conclusion that Ayn Rand Thought - a cult in itself, has replaced Class Struggle and dialectical materialism in the heart and heads of the ruling state bureaucrats.
How could ANYBODY in either country quickly become a millionaire or even a billionaire in a very un-bourgeois property environment? I concluded years ago that the New Class in Russia and China was at least sponsored (ironically) by ruling corrupt Communist Party bureaucrats.
Way back in 1929 exiled Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky was writing "The Revolution Betrayed." Trotsky predicted that a privileged bureaucracy in a "socialist" country could in time lead the country all the way back to "free market" capitalism. What else could we expect from Czar Putin? The same fate for China?
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How could ANYBODY in either country quickly become a millionaire or even a billionaire in a very un-bourgeois property environment? I concluded years ago that the New Class in Russia and China was at least sponsored (ironically) by ruling corrupt Communist Party bureaucrats.
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| link to Marxists.org Trotsky review |
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