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zikzak025@lemmy.world 8 hours agoThat just sounds like a reframing of “the capitalist class are the party” though. If the party either controls the corporations or has the ability to seize control if their priorities aren’t met, where does one group begin and the other end?
zbyte64@awful.systems 6 hours ago
Wouldn’t that have made the USSR capitalist as well? I think a key distinction is how authority within a party is established. If authority is derived from ownership then that is clearly capitalist. If authority is derived from the party itself, then that is something else.