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Originally Posted by The Batlord
You're conflating "class" as a distinction of wealth (upper, middle, and lower) with "class" as it's used in a Marxist sense to describe the relationship to production (bourgeois and proletariat).
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In a dictatorship like the USSR the means of production were in the hands of the party leadership, so neither applies here. Which is my entire point in this thread: don't trust trans-historical ideological fictions.