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On 11/5/14 11:36 AM, Shane Mage via Marxism wrote:
By playing word games with phrases like "productive forces," "property forms," and "production relations" the Orthodox managed for fifty years to pretend that under the Stalinist "USSR" brand they were buying a "Degenerated Workers' State." Some pretend that Russia even now is a "workers' state!" In the 1950s-1960's the dominant faction of the Fourth International even expected a socialist revolution to be introduced to western Europe through invasion by the Russian Army (by the early 1960's the same types, then as now, moved their trust onto a new brand--the "Arab Revolution" of the Boumediennes and Qaddafis).
So weird to see Shane fulminating against the Fourth International for adapting to Stalinism when his primary role on Marxmail is to serve as a transmission belt for RT.com talking points.
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