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Re: Query from a Venezuelan

Jim Devine writes:

>> Grant writes:
>> In reality I don't really think there is much difference between
>> state socialism and state capitalism, although the former is
distinguished
>> by the support of the working class and the stated intention to abolish
the
>> state, at some point in the future.
>
>
>did the Russian working class support the Soviet state in 1936?

Maybe not, but what makes you think they didn't? Stalin's worst excesses
didn't necessarily have an impact on everyone in the USSR.
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