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• Post #2485801

  Did I agree or disagree with you that the USSR and China were not capitalist? I’m open to different interpretations. I can see ways that USSR and China were capitalistic in some ways, socialistic in some ways, and had their own unique character in other ways. China and USSR weren’t even allies after Stalin, and China’s economy changed dramatically after Deng Xiaoping took charge of organizing the Chinese economy after the cultural revolution. I’m actually quite critical of the USSR after 1921....

• Post #2441460

  That’s an interesting observation, whether or not USSR and/or China is/was capitalist, and in what ways, is a rich topic of discussion. There are a ton of different theories about them, and I’m familiar with a few. Why do you think USSR and China still had militaries? Was it to make imperialist war, or to defend against it? There’s an abundance of different views on the topic that are much more scientifically and historically honest than “its just human nature.”

• Post #34286

  Hey its a good question, and its one that a lot of reforming liberal democrats like yourself, and myself at one time, struggle to understand. A revolution is necessarily violent and authoritarian, right? Well, kind of, maybe. I’m a Marxist and Marxists tend to think of revolutions as a change in the fundamental relationship that humans have to production. What gets made, who makes it, and why. A group of revolutionaries who seize control of the government but do nothing to change those fundame...