Talk:Corruption in the Soviet Union

Plekhavov
I copied from Corruption in Kyrgyzstan where it was unreferenced (so I deleted it there); needs verification; quick google search shows nothing.

"At the end of the 19th century, Georgi Plekhanov warned: 'The socialist organization of production presupposes a character of economic relations that would make this organization a logical conclusion from the entire previous development of the country', because 'decrees cannot create conditions alien to the very nature of modern economic relations. If this is not the case, after the social revolution 'you will have to put up with what is, take what gives ... reality.' In this case, 'the building of the socialist organization will be built by the hands of the government,' not the working class, not the people, but 'from above.' The party will not serve the class, but the working class and the rank-and-file members of this party will serve the upper party structures, which G.V. Plekhanov called the 'caste.' “National production will be managed by a socialist“ caste ”(in the present, nomenklatura business executives, from among whom party and state workers were nominated), regarding the members of which there can be no guarantees that they will not want to use the power they have seized for goals that have nothing to do with the interests of the working class. '"

- Altenmann >talk 21:20, 9 January 2024 (UTC)