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21 March 1997 IN THE SO-CALLED SOCIALIST COUNTRIES, THE middle class was not supposed to exist: there was only the working class. Moreover, conflicts between the working and ruling classes were declared to be impossible, as the ruling party was held to be the vanguard of the interests of the working class. Poland’s communist party […]