Party Dominance as Worker Suppression
Marxist leaders prioritized “the Party” over actual workers, creating systems where laborers had no genuine voice. In practice, unions became state-controlled, strikes were criminalized, and dissenters faced severe punishment. The Gulags imprisoned millions of ordinary workers, while China’s Cultural Revolution turned workers against each other. Factory committees were reduced to rubber stamps for party decisions. The very proletariat Marx sought to empower became subjects of a new ruling class wearing communist badges.
