The formation of the Soviet state and its bureaucratization

The Russian Revolution is a historical event from which not only 85 years separate us, but also numerous defeats of the Working Class, of the oppressed, a growing distrust in the capacity of the workers to transform the world, and even more, a strong crisis of class identity that provokes a widespread phenomenon of estrangement and alienation with the greatest revolutionary experience of the 20th century. We are not oblivious to this reality, but we live it rather as a contradictory tension insofar as we feel and understand the need to recover that experience for our class. This need is reinforced in the notorious inability to approach it in a scientific and comprehensive way (without abandoning a class point of view) on the part of the few analyses that are made today, which fall back on apologetic balances in some cases, or unilateral rejection in others, a rejection which concludes that every revolution, in the last instance, will end up bureaucratizing itself and rehabilitating a new domination.

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Professor e Licenciado em Sociologia. Mestre em Investigação em Ciências Sociais. Universidade de Buenos Aires. Docente na UBA, a nível superior e secundário. Publicações sobre Empresas Recuperadas na Argentina, sobre Religião e força social de mudança nos anos 60 e sobre Inter-relação de coordenadores de trabalhadores e grupos políticos nos anos 70.