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The invariable fact about state socialism was
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that the people at the top of the state apparatus
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privileged themselves and their children,
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and a new class struggle developed.
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Now, more generally
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and here I'm using the work of a sociologist
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named Ralf Dahrendorf,
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economist sociologist who died just a few weeks ago,
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and Dahrendorf's point, which I'm sure is true,
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is that you can generate classes
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around any process of production and distribution.
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There is nothing final about the proletariat coming to power,