What went wrong?
What went wrong?
Dominic Perez
Noah Hughes
Nothing?
Brandon Stewart
Khruschev.
Lucas Ortiz
it left also revisionism
Jeremiah Gomez
nothing
Jayden Edwards
State capitalism Authoritarian Totalitarian and Police State.
Hunter Richardson
it wasn't practical in taking account for human nature
Wyatt Carter
Am I the only one who thinks he was the only chance they had to make it right after Stalin fucked it up?
Carter Allen
zizek lays it down fam youtube.com
Isaac Harris
It's pretty much impossible to apply socialism to an imperial framework.
The USSR was rad as fuck, but still genetically descended from the old Tsarist Empire.
Juan Sanchez
State capitalism > centralized economy but no DOTP > State capitalism.
Caleb Bennett
libcom.org
libcom.org
TL;DR it never had the potential for communism to begin with.
Your implication is that it's impossible to transition from one mode of governance to another. Since more or less all existing states have such "genetics"(???).
Julian Gutierrez
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Christopher Lopez
this is your brain on left communism
Nathan Barnes
Stalin
Ethan Williams
non weeb version for normies
Jackson Morgan
Yup, and the only intelligent replies in the entire thread.
Jose Perry
The revolution didn't spread and the USSR had the added hurdle of catching up with the industrialized west which the USSR tried through investing surplus value and all the contradictions that comes with that.
Julian Powell
1) The failure of the German revolution, 1918-1919.
2) War communism, 1918-1921.
3) The death of Lenin, 1924.
4) The famine of 1932-33.
5) The purges of 1936-38.
6) The assassination of Trotsky, 1940.
7) The Second World War, 1939-1945
8) ???
9) The fall of the Soviet Union, 1989-1991.
Eli Bennett
I think the assassination of Trotksy went pretty well :^)
Otherwise I can agree with this.
??? being the restoration of capitalism by Krushchev and consorts.
Grayson Carter
World got a huge boost of Socialism in a workable form (Marxism), people lives were significantly improved (all around the world), Russia specifically turned from fundie illiterate banana republic into industrial state on par with Europe.
I'm not even mentioning technological advances or Nazism here.
What exactly is not to your liking?
Eli Thompson
It was not market socialist
Adrian Young
Time to prepare the rope.
Jace Lewis
Communism.
Jayden Wood
You mean the inability to go past State Capitalism, create world socialism and let the party wither away in order for communism to become realized?
Ethan Powell
Russia was fucked before World War 1 (top-heavy, tsar taxed the fuck out of peasantry to make life nice for nobles and to have a fuckhuge military to crush resistance). Russia was fucked by WW1, loss of lives, land, factories, etc.
Russia was fucked by resistance of the White Guards and exploiting classes who cut railways and starved the cities of food. Russia was fucked by technical incompetence, this led the bolsheviks to basically apply the old methods of industrial management instead of allowing the workers to oversee their own production (argument of national welfare and reindustrialization versus syndicalism, the bolsheviks being true to the word of socialism). Russia was fucked by intra-party splits. Russia was fucked by West Europe not making its own revolution. Russia was fucked by mis and disinformation carried out by western countries on their own proletariats. Russia fucked itself by claiming monopoly on revolution and using the comintern for its own ends. fug
Grayson Nelson
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Jeremiah Morales
Yes, you are the only one.
Ethan Torres
It was more like "Ye, comrade Stalin, you're fucking up commanding the front.. why not come back?" "Ok Trotsky… (You're dead to me)"
Care to elaborate?