@jbgi@temochka the bureaucratic class was not directly benefiting or accumulating wealth. It didn't produce oligarchs and billionaires the way actual capitalism does.
And you need a bureaucracy to operate any non trivial organization. This has nothing to do with communism or capitalism.
@yogthos@temochka see the work of Milovan Đilas (*The New Class),* Mervyn Matthews (*Privilege in the Soviet Union*) and many others documenting the ruling class privileges in the USSR.
And their is a continuation : 60% of elites in the Vladimir Putin regime had nomenklatura backgrounds.
We only need to look at this study showing an unprecedented mortality crisis struck Eastern Europe during the 1990s, causing around 7 million excess deaths after the transition to capitalism to see just how utterly absurd your argument is
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@jbgi @temochka the bureaucratic class was not directly benefiting or accumulating wealth. It didn't produce oligarchs and billionaires the way actual capitalism does.
And you need a bureaucracy to operate any non trivial organization. This has nothing to do with communism or capitalism.
You seem profoundly confused here.