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

[Paddy Apling <e.c.apling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 13:32 01/12/2005, Einde Callaghan wrote:

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?

Paddy:
How the Russian working-class allowed this to happen IS the big
question - and the second question, deeply involved in the first - is
how their so-called representatives (leaders? !!) in the ruling elite
or nomenklatura came to be so involved with the incipient(?)
bourgeois mentality of the expanding black market.

But surely there is no question that objectively the change WAS a
counter-revolution?

Paddy
http://apling.freeservers.com



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