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To: Neocon who wrote (151220)	9/10/2002 12:44:07 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) of 1586650

Actually, it was the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and the Soviets were perfectly aware that they had not achieved true communism. But that didn't stop them from calling themselves communists. My point of view when discussing this issue was to point out a name like the USSR or what the Soviets said publicly was more doublespeak than a true reality. Also, a lot of Marxists were persuaded that the Leninist model was viable, so whereas it was not a necessary consequence of Marxism, it was a plausible extrapolation. The idea was that the proletariat, given its oppression, needed a vanguard party from among the educated to represent its interests. But even the Lenin model only expected the party to be in power for a short time before the dictatorship of the proletariat rose up and took over. And the truth be known, the party proved only to be a layer in the gov't bureaucracy with the true power lying with the Premier and the commissars who surrounded him.......I think they were called commissars. My point was that the USSR in practice was a totalitarian regime that give lip service to Marxist ideals.

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