Jacob Pointon’s Reviews > Magnetic Mountain: Stalinism as a Civilization > Status Update

"In the USSR the pact between labor and management involved not reconciliation but "class struggle" against the bourgeoisie—an antagonism that persisted even after the domestic exploiting class was liquidated. If Soviet industrialization was not simply "development" but war, it was not just any kind of war but class war, against real and imputed enemies, requiring every possible method, including organized violence."