Author: Georg v. Zimmermann
Date: 16:37:02 11/24/03
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On November 24, 2003 at 19:23:03, Steve Maughan wrote: >Zach, > >>"Communist dictatorship" is an oxymoron. > >Help me understand why > >Steve "Communism is the final stage of society in Marxist theory in which the state has withered away and economic goods are distributed equitably." (Webster) Therefore Communists dictatorship makes as much sense as "democratic dictatorship". From this you can see that the USSR certainly was not a communist society. That is the reason why the term "Stalinism" exists, or "Leninism".
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