To: l33t
Liberals love to claim that socialism is great and that the USSR failed because they didn't go about it right. They hold up socialist countries in Europe, like Sweden and France, as examples. There's just one problem. These European models of socialism keep crashing and burning.
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
These European models of socialism keep crashing and burning. They must not be doing it right either.
4 posted on
05/04/2002 3:49:09 PM PDT by
Moonman62
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
I went to a meeting of a group of literary scholars not long after the dissolution of the USSR. One of my marxist-inclined colleagues explained, when asked how come the great Soviet experiment had collapsed, contrary to all predictions, by saying that, according to Marx, you can't have true Communism until you first go through capitalism. But Russia, foolishly eager, went straight from Czarist feudalism to Communism instead of taking things slowly in the proper historical order that Marx had predicted.
So, she concluded, Russia needed to have a century or so of capitalist development. Then they could try Communism all over again, and this time it would succeed. She evidently was looking forward to the day.
12 posted on
05/04/2002 3:59:05 PM PDT by
Cicero
To: Excuse_My_Bellicosity
Kind of reminds me of the Muslims who say Saudi, Iran, Libya, Taliban don't practice "true Sharia law".
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