What was the "class character" of the Soviet Union and its leadership after the defeat of the World Revolution?
^^^ Well, since you read the Social Proletocracy thread, we both know that "state capitalist monopoly" (state-based M-C-M) was established from the outset (i.e., by the Bolsheviks due to Lenin's mistaken Second-International conception of "socialism"). The question is: do we call the post-Lenin bureaucrats "bourgeoisie" or not? Nevertheless, they were "functioning capitalists," (with lower-ranking bureaucrats serving as coordinators) to use the terminology in Chapter 2 of my WIP. Although I said in my WIP, "For now, these three positions can be considered to be part of the same bourgeois whole" (Chapter 2 on "functioning capitalists," business magnates, and money-capitalists) - bourgeois capitalism is associated with private ownership.
