The Russian Communist Party and the Proletariat as a Whole

The communists were a manifestation of industrial capitalism, an answer to its horrors and degradations. In the interval between marx and stallen, the communists absolutely opposed other working class parties. They did have interests, separate and apart from those as the proletariat as a whole. And whatever else the communist party was and the soviet union were, it was not by and for the workers. Soviets had long ago been co opted and were controlled by political appointees senting the party interests rather than that of the workers.