• Strauss Belial@lemmy.world
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    Leninist created a government with a extremwly powerful class, that owned all means of production. Please explain us how’s that communism

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      Leninist created a government with a extremwly powerful class, that owned all means of production.

      The… proletariat class? Are you suggesting a working class in Russia didn’t exist prior to 1917?

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        That user is suggesting that the Party administration, by virtue of controlling the means of production was definitionally not proletariat, but in fact the most concentrated group of bourgeois administrators.

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          the Party administration, by virtue of controlling the means of production

          Before the Russian Civil War was even over? An incredible feat of administrative enginuity.

          the most concentrated group of bourgeois administrators

          The Soviet Bureaucracy was 5.4M people strong by 1920. Even assuming you dismiss the existence of Communes as autonomous self-governing bodies, that’s 4% of the total population.

          This is what we’re describing as highly concentrated bourgeois wealth?

          And we’re comparing it to King George V who - as a singular person - controlled 37% of the entire national economy through his titles, lands, and equity in various British conglomerates?

    • Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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      Administration is not a class in Marxist understanding. Classes are relations to ownership of the means of production and distribution. Principals and teachers are both proletarian, despite having different managerial levels.