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Hymns to the sacred socialist property sound under these conditions a good deal more convincing to the manager or the Stakhanovist, than to the rank-and-file worker or collective peasant. The rank-and-file workers, however, are the overwhelming majority of society. It was they, and not the new aristocracy, that socialism had in mind.
— Nov 24, 2025 05:13PM
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The worker-mother has her view of the social regime, and her "consumer's" criterion, as the functionary--very attentive, by the way, to his own consumption--scornfully expresses it, is in the last analysis decisive. In the conflict between the working woman and the bureaucracy, Marx and Lenin, and we with them, stand on the side of the working woman.
— Nov 19, 2025 05:31PM
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In any case, state ownership of the means of production does not turn manure into gold, and does not surround with a halo of sanctity the sweatshop system, which wears out the greatest of all productive forces: man.
— Nov 19, 2025 06:15AM
