Abstract
Communist parties rule in the name of the proletariat. But just as not all workers actively supported the revolutions that propelled many communist parties to ascendancy, so not all sectors of the proletariat have benefitted equally from the Marxist-Leninist regimes established in the wake of these revolutionary movements. The fact that only certain elements of labor participated enthusi astically in the revolutionary enterprise and only some laborers gained substantially from communist takeovers raises obvious questions. What was the relationship between labor's support for the revolution and the revolutionaries' subsequent promotion of the proletariat? Was party pa tronage after the consolidation of communist rule distributed along similar lines to those that had divided the work force during the revolutionary struggle? And how did such differentiation structure worker militancy un der communism?
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