Nomenklatura

Some leading collective-farm functionaries and their gangs steal and speculate at will, freely squander public money and fleece the collective farmers. ... Collective farms under the control of such functionaries virtually become their private property. Such men turn socialist collective economic enterprises into economic enterprises of new kulaks. ~ Mao Zedong

Factories which have fallen into the clutches of such degenerates are socialist enterprises only in name, ... in fact they have become capitalist enterprises by which these persons enrich themselves. ~ Mao Zedong

The nomenklatura were a category of administrators within the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries who held various key positions in the bureaucracy.

Quotes

• Let me examine the alleged "distinction from capitalism" characteristic of the Soviet Union and see whether it isn't a distinction from a certain stage of capitalism rather than from capitalism as a whole. The determining factor in analyzing the class nature of a society is not whether the means of production are the private property of the capitalist class or are state-owned, but whether the means of production ... are monopolized and alienated from the direct producers. The Soviet Government occupies in relation to the whole economic system the position which a capitalist occupies in relation to a single enterprise. ... "Bureaucratic state socialism" is an irrational expression behind which there exists the real economic relation of state-capitalist-exploiter to the propertyless exploited.
  • Raya Dunayevskaya, "The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is a Capitalist Society" (1941), in Russia: From Proletarian Revolution to State-Capitalist Counter-Revolution (2017), p. 210

• These examples show that the factories which have fallen into the clutches of such degenerates are socialist enterprises only in name, that in fact they have become capitalist enterprises by which these persons enrich themselves. The relationship of such persons to the workers has turned into one between exploiters and exploited, between oppressors and oppressed.
  • Mao Zedong, On Khrushchov’s Phoney Communism and Its Historical Lessons for the World (1964)

• Some leading collective-farm functionaries and their gangs steal and speculate at will, freely squander public money and fleece the collective farmers. ... Collective farms under the control of such functionaries virtually become their private property. Such men turn socialist collective economic enterprises into economic enterprises of new kulaks. There are often people in their superior organizations who protect them. Their relationship to the collective farmers has likewise become that of oppressors to oppressed, of exploiters to exploited. Are not such neo-exploiters who ride on the backs of the collective farmers one-hund-red-per-cent neo-kulaks?
  • Mao Zedong, On Khrushchov’s Phoney Communism and Its Historical Lessons for the World (1964)