Posted on 06/24/2019 1:58:15 PM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
At the dawn of the USSR, hopes of the imminent global rule of communism soared high among leftists of the world. But in a few decades, it became clear that the socialistic ideals of Lenin had failed. How did this come to happen?
“It is important to distinguish socialism from communism,” says Elena Malysheva, dean at the Division of Archival Studies at the Institute for History and Archives. “While socialism was the formal type of state administration of the USSR, communism was the ruling ideology. The project of the socialist state was initially utopian and populistic.”
“The Soviet project contained elements of what we now call ‘a social state’: social mobility, civil society institutes, social support, free health services, etc. But, because of the utopian nature of the project, this all couldn’t be implemented in full,” says Elena Malysheva. “Non-separation of powers, self-administration of the people – all this demands high social responsibilities that Soviet society didn’t have.”
“The Party apparatus and the state apparatus had merged on all levels: executive, administrative and communicative level,” Malysheva says. “In case of any crisis in either one of them – the other one would go into decline, too. So, when democracy started to develop in the late 1980s, the Party couldn’t hold the power. Although the Communist ideology in itself had the capacity for survival, the merging with the state apparatus doomed Communism.”
The Chernobyl catastrophe showed that the executive branch was rotten to the core. After Mikhail Gorbachev started social and political reforms, the unstable equilibrium of the Party and the State fell apart. After the introduction of real elections, the peoples of the Soviet republics showed a strong inclination for sovereignty and the opportunity to make their own decisions...
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It succeeded stalun had nice life and morning strawberries and plenty of nubile females what else could matter?
It failed because it is socialism. It is always doomed to fail. Any system the penalizes producers and rewards non-producers is doomed at the start. There is no “correct” way to implement socialism. It is proven guaranteed failure.
Socialism and Communism have the same results. The elites keep their wealth and confiscate yours.
It is against human nature, and it will never work, anywhere. Period.
Many Catholic types of Priests and Nuns are living a communist style of life, but this is by choice, and it doesn't always work.
You can only impose communism by force, because given a choice, humans will always do what they perceive is best for them, not the 'common good'.
Socialism failed on day one in the Ussr and continued to worsen. It doesn’t work, never did, never will.
I get it..!
They --the same commie initiators, that is-- will go ALL the way SOMEWHERE ELSE..!!
Gosh I WONDER where that SOMEWHERE ELSE will be...?
Can you guess..?
Now he's tweeting all sorts of anti-capitolism stuff and touting how great Cuba is. I think he's now being forced to "work" for Cuba. Sucker.
Socialisn = crony capitalism.
A;lways. No matter what.
because socialism is contrary to human nature.
In a nutshell, that’s it. That’s why socialism always fails.
A communist is a socialist with your gun.
Socialism is social i.e. government control of the means of production
This fails in anything except a simple farming community producing a few agricultural products
Socialism, even communism (common sharing of fruits of labour) can work very well in a kibbutz or a closed monastery BUT that kibbutz/monastery functions as a single person (corporate entity) interacting with other people (either individuals or corporate entities)
If you try to control more than simple agricultural goods then the system fails, as happened to the USSR in the 1950s
Take a simple case of - manufacturing wrist watches.
how do we know how many watches the public NEEDS? Some people may like more than one, others may not even want one. Some watches may last a few years, others a few lifetimes. It is impossible to track. Better for market economies like separate organizms to live and breath and die
Mobile phones are a classic example - giants like Motorola or Nokia were killed by newly evolved creatures
Socialism can't work, it's been proven over and over again and even theoretically it can't work
Now as to Democratic socialism - which is a capitalist economy but where you have a social net. It can work in a small, mono-ethnic, high-trust society. But it can't work in a multi-ethnic (even if all the ethnics were say "white" - say if you mix Scots, English and Welsh together, it still won't work)
But, imho pure laissez faire anarchism, without rules, won't work either - make the playing area free for all, but with strong penalties for bullying or breaking rules.
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No thanks anti-Catholic bigot.
I've been a Catholic for over 70 years with 16 years of Catholic education.
I have 50+ year personal friendships with multiple Priests and one Nun {she is a sister of another friend}.
I go to Mass and engage in the Sacraments, so I'm not sure where you got that I'm anti-Catholic.
There are some Catholic Priests that practice voluntary communism {communal living with no personal wealth}, the Benedictines for example.
Relax. jac.
It fails everywhere whenever it’s tried.
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