Sentences with word «nomenklatura»

Stalinism is a more or less thin cover for class rule by party and state nomenklatura, though at times when connected with recent revolutionary activity it has produced liberatory ideas (Milovan Djilas, Imre Nagy (and his «co-conspirators»), Alexander Dubček).

It's as if the Democrats have created a privileged class of Americans — akin to the old Soviet nomenklatura — consisting of public employees who are insulated from the normal perils and pains to which ordinary citizens are exposed.

So the old Soviet model of the nomenklatura communist bureaucrats getting rich while the rest of the country declines is still in place.

He notes the ways in which the nomenklatura of the old Communist system have unfairly taken advantage of post-Communist freedoms.

That people turned out to «vote» at all was a demonstration of the nomenklatura's control over workers, and of workers acquiesence to this control.

Not any old Leftist thought either, but one that agrees with the wishes of the would - be nomenklatura.

Oh, and something to remember: while the actions taken to «fight global climate change» will have enormous impact on you, your children, and grandchildren, they will have essentially NO impact on the nomenklatura who are making the rules and enforcing energy austerity on the proletariat — us.

Technology today has been supplanted by the «nomenklatura» — «nomenklatura» is the name weary Comrades» in the old Soviet Union gave to nameless bureaucrats that killed initiative and drive and innovation (it is derived from «nomenclautura» — Latin for «list of names»).