(11-26-2020, 02:25 AM)Einzige Wrote: Bureaucracies do not exist under socialism. Socialism is literally nothing more than the proletariat seizing society and operating it in its image. The bureau belongs to the age of abstract capitalist management, including Soviet and Maoist capitalism.
No true Scotsman fallacy. So you make the argument:
No true Scotsman likes jazz. But "Angus MacPherson just bought a large collection of jazz records. Oh. When you look closely into it, his mother is Russian. Oh, that explains it. Angus McPherson isn't really Scots, then".
You can't say that a system isn't socialist because it has oppression, bureaucracy, militarism, or some other objectionable feature.
...I didn't intend to disparage jazz.
A cat is still a cat if it chases a dog (which is possible with a small dog).
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.
