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economic foundations for the transition to socialism.
Still less could they have sanctioned, even if they had been able to imagine, the monstrous idea that socialism could be realized without equality; that nationalized production and planned economy, controlled by a ruthless police dictatorship, complete with prisons, torture chambers, and forcedlabor camps, could be designated as a "socialist" society. That unspeakable perversion and contradiction of terms belongs to the Stalinists and their apologists.
All the great Marxists defined socialism as a classless society-with abundance, freedom, and equality for all: a society in which there would be no state, not even a democratic workers' state, to say nothing of a state in the monstrous form of a bureaucratic dictatorship of a privileged minority.
Workers' democracy
The Soviet Union today is a transitional order of society in which the bureaucratic dictatorship of a privileged minority, far from serving as the agency to bridge the support...
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