[jahaja]

This is the reason why some people called it state capitalism, since the only difference for the workers is who's the boss.

[geezerjay]

> This is the reason why some people called it state capitalism

Actually, it's not. State capitalism has absolutely no relation to how workers were used and abused by communist regimes.

[jahaja]

Care to explain?

For example, the following is from "The Failure of the Working Class" by Anton Pannekoek in 1946:

The workers of the world nowadays have two mighty foes, two hostile and suppressing powers over against them: the monopolistic capitalism of America and England, and Russian state capitalism. The former is drifting toward social dictatorship camouflaged in democratic forms; the latter proclaims dictatorship openly, formerly with the addition "of the proletariat," although nobody believes that any more.