In this article the author pursues the idea that both Russian capitalism and the nomenklatura socialism that replaced it could exist only through the exploitation of the peasantry as a huge internal colony. I am especially pleased that the article has been honored by the remarkable Soviet and Russian film director A. S. Konchalovsky.
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Karl Marx’s greatest achievement was that he discovered the dual nature of the labor process. Labor creates both consumer and exchange values. He discovered the dual nature of value itself: use value, exchange value.