And also note above the sympathy the Soviet experiment continues to get from Russian elites!
Apologists for communism and socialism, often say that it was just never implemented properly.
So then, communist leaders such as Stalin, Chairman Mao, Lenin, Castro, just weren’t good enough communists. They didn’t properly understand and implement the theories of Marx and Engels. That’s what we are led to believe.
Because it’s socialism. That’s why. It fails and destroys the human spirit everywhere it is tried.
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Ran out of other peoples money ,well they did that in their first 6 months ,LOL
It failed because the soviets didn’t implement the “right” kind of socialism. Same reason that so many junkies fail to implement the “right” way to ingest meth.
Why did socialism fail in ______________________.
Socialism is a corrupt form of tyranny that breeds more corruption by design.................
Because all the haves had and those that hadn’t didn’t.
Not enough blogs.
Had blogs been allowed, everyone would have prospered of hunger and stupidity.
Total bull**it. Marx was a hateful, spiteful, resentful POS with daddy issues. What the idiots who embrace socialism need to understand (including those Jews who identify with and have pride in Marx as a Jew, and erroneously think that the Soviets represented salvation from the Fascists) is that freedom and self-determininism are sacred, and that there can never be a 'utopia' when individuals can't be self-defining individuals. In some very real ways, it was Marx who fueled WWII.
Why-ever would anyone want that?
Doesn't everyone want all aspects of their lives to be totally controlled by corrupt politicians, who line their own pockets with with the peasants money, while looking down on them, and threatening them (peasants), that they better be happy about it, (livining in tyranny), or else?
Just plain nuts!
Marx’s economic theories were always nothing more than sweet sounding lies, designed to help take power. A deliberate fraud from its very beginning.
Marx was a ruthless politician first, and only came up with his new sales pitch/political platform after being expelled from his home country for supporting a failed coup. Just trying to sucker enough additional fools to get behind the next putsch.
The author apparently feels he’s making a point, but his piece is so incoherently written I missed it. Not interested in re-reading, thx....
For a political system to be viable, it has to work even if implemented imperfectly. Socialism flunks this test over and over again.
Russian GDP grew faster the last 75 years under the Czars, than it did during the 75 years of the Soviet Union, when it became reduced to a near one crop economy, massively dependent on oil/gas production.
The drop in oil prices is what put them under, but the long economic withering under State control is what set them up for the fall.
The exceptions, of course, being the elites who would control the destiny of the rest of the world.
The reality is that Russia has always had authoritarian rule from the Tsars to Lenin to Stalin to Putin. Communism was just another form of tyrannical rule. The party elites controlling the masses.
Bernie Sanders like any other socialist in power, all pigs are equal but some pigs are more equal than others. He spews communism / socialism yet he lives an opulent lifestyle.