Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:40:50 11/24/03
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On November 24, 2003 at 19:37:02, Georg v. Zimmermann wrote: >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". Yet Marx and Engels postulated a "Dictatorship of the Proletariat" that was supposed to last "a short while." Wouldn't this stuff be better suited to the other forum?
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