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Socialist Outlook no. 81, April 8 1995 · 1,086 words

Latin America Racism and anti-fascism

mands ever be achieved under the bureaucratically deformed workers states and degenerated USSR, whose regimes survived only by repressing the working class.

We are a marxist current, based not on the brutish totalitarian parodies of state marxism, nor on the tame, toothless version of "marxism' beloved by armchair academics, but the revolutionary tradition of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.

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For instance, it is conceivable that a unification of the aerospace industry of Western Europe with that of Russia and Eastern Europe under the planned economy of a United Socialist States of Europe (and eastwards) could well outstrip today's North American aerospace industry.

A prerequisite of socialism is therefore the seizure of state power, i.e., of political power, in a series of countries and the establishment of a planned economy at the level of a union or federation of these ctates Of course the first step will be the seizure of state power in one country but the next step is not the elimination of private property on a national scale in this one country but an international extension of the revolution, i.e., more seizures of state power. Quite clearly, world imperialism is not going to sit quietly by whilst the proletariat seizes power in one can get a chance I you want, with a I far better chance | National Lottery! Your name.. Your bank sorting code Your account number.

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