The idea that there are NOT sections of the ruling class has been the bain of the Communist movement since 1946 ; it is a drastically wrongheaded assessment of class politics ; it has destroyed much of the US Left for decades . Use of the term Stalinism bespeaks very befuddled political thinking ; the idea that there are not different sections of the ruling class such that we should not ally with different sections in this circumstance of balances of class conscious and unconscious workers IS TOTAL MISLEADERSHIP of the working class giving "Marxism" a bad name as out of touch with objective political reality ; non-materialist