I think the major take-away has to be what Piketty said --- the privileges of the party elite were very dramatic and impossible to quantify ----
The ability of "managers" to skim a little off the top ---- (bureaucracies are infinitely corruptible!) ---- meant that measured inequality was completely irrelevant to "real" inequality --- On Thu, Mar 7, 2024 at 5:29 PM Charlie <[email protected]> wrote: > Privilege in the Khrushchev-Brezhnev-Gorbachev era and its role in the > collapse of the Soviet Union are examined in "Material Forces that Turn > Socialism into Capitalism" at > https://www.idcommunism.com/2023/04/material-forces-that-turn-socialism-into-capitalism.html > . It argues from the data – at a high enough level that there is no need to > go into dicey ratios. Marv tells us, "the Soviet data was often murky and > inaccessible to researchers and, as is so frequently the case, was > selectively drawn on..." and then he proceeds to draw his own selective > picture. > _._,_._,_ > ------------------------------ > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29321): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29321 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104795089/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
