ABSTRACT
One may characterize "Stalinism" as a totalitarian society based on the state ownership of the means of production. Totalitarianism, in its perfect form, is an extraordinary form of slavery without masters. It converts all people into slaves and thereby bears certain egalitarian marks. The Soviet variety of totalitarian society was ripening for many years before reaching its excellence. In the first stage, basic forms of representative democracy were done away with: parliament, elections, political parties, uncontrolled press. The second stage is known under the misleading name of "war communism". The third stage was coercive collectivization, which amounted to destroying the last not-yet-nationalized social class and gave the state the full power to control economic life. Marxism is a ready-made doctrinal body which is the same as the class-consciouness of proletariat in its mature and theoretically elaborated form. Marxism is true both because of its "scientific" value and because it articulates the aspirations of the "most progressive" social class.
