Without economic control, proletarian dictatorship masks bureaucratic rule.
Evidence
In 1949, Cornelius Castoriadis wrote in “The Relations of Production in Russia”: “The dictatorship of the proletariat cannot be simply the political dictatorship; it must be above all the economic dictatorship of the proletariat, for otherwise it will only be a mask for the dictatorship of the bureaucracy.” — Cedric J. Robinson, Black Marxism_ The Making of the Black…, 2433
Categorization
Category: Causal Relationships
- XREF: Echoes James’s decade-earlier critique in World Revolution and the book’s broader argument that Soviet state capitalism betrayed revolutionary aims.