Re: [Marxism] If Marxism is a Science then its Predictions ShouldMatter...

[Einde O'Callaghan <einde@xxxxxx>]

rrubinelli wrote:

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> And no such billions in welfare payments were made in the former USSR;
> the social structure, including the military, was basically torched.
Eastern Europe isn't the only part of teh world where the victory of
neo-liberalism has led to the social gains of previous decades being
torched. It also happened in Indonesia and in Argentina, for example.
This is indeed the whole purpose of neo-liberalism as far as the ruling
class is concerned.

In addition, if the there was a counter-revolution (i.e. the replacement
of one ruling class by another), as claimed by various workers statists,
why is it that the present Russian capitalist class (or elite, if you
prefer, although I prefer to think of them as robber barons like their
counterparts in the late 19th century US) is essentially made up of
former members of the ruling elite or nomenklatura and the working
class, supposedly the ruling class before 1989-1991, allowed this to
happen without any noticeable resistance?

Einde O'Callaghan

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