If Communism can only emerge from advanced 1st world capitalist societies, why did Lenin and Stalin try to force it to emerge from a backwards 3rd world agrarian society?
If Communism can only emerge from advanced 1st world capitalist societies...
Kevin Miller
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Ryan Adams
Because they were funded by Wall Street bankers, the Rothschilds, etc. to permanently discredit and subvert Marx's work and the project of socialism as a whole.
Nicholas Gonzalez
Because at the time they wernt the only revolution taking place. In Germany and other areas, people were trying to overthrow their goverments. The Russian revolution was meant to inspire workers of other countries the rise up, and it did, it's just they wernt successful in overthrowing the capitalists, leaving russia on their own.
Blake Howard
Leninism specifically argues for a vanguard party to industrialise countries like Russia to prepare it for communism. Mao adopted a similar line of thought and applied it to China, specifically agrarian peasants, hence Maoism.
The reason why many are critical of using the USSR or China as examples of "failed" communism is because they are so far removed from Marx's theory in the first place.
Jonathan Davis
Industrial capitalism would have emerged out of Russia on its own without the help of a vanguard party. The results of attempting to jump epochs were brutal, both in Russia and China, and it permanently scarred the name of Marx and communism.
Michael Murphy
I agree.
However I would argue that it may have taken longer to industrialise without such strict economic control. Not that I am advocating this.
Also Russia's involvement in WW2 was pivotal, I dread to think how it would have gone with the incompetency of the Tsars.
Ian Jones
they tried to turn a third world country rapidly into a first by state capitalist means, transforming an agrarian economy into an industrial one has always created a mess along the way
there's parallels between the collectivisation of agriculture in the ussr and the enclosure acts in britain, everything just happened a lot lot faster instead of over hundreds of years
industrialization would have naturally taken a lot longer to happen
Luis Ramirez
they were autistic
Zachary Mitchell
This tbh. The world wasn't ready for socialism. The average person has to understand the problem with capitalism. You can't just force it or they'll yearn for a return to muh freedom the way people today have nostalgia for feudalism.
Adam Stewart
Lenin was hoping for a revolution in the West; his whole strategy depended on it. Besides, all he ever pretended to make emerge in Russia was… state capitalism.
As for Stalin, he pursued the goal of building capitalism in Russia, but wrongfully called it socialism (for obvious reasons).