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Soviet != Communist

Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 04 2012 @ 09:41 PM EDT

There's no need for state power to prevent slackers: Just
don't let the slackers receive any money or goods. But the
Soviets never tried true communes, and *even if they had*,
the conditions in the Soviet Union where never sufficiently
advanced to meet the criteria Marx had described for when a
socialist revolution could be successful. Notably, Marx
pointed out already in 1845 that a key condition would be
that a revolution could only be successful in a country that
could meet the basic needs of everyone - a revolution in a
less developed country, according to Marx, would just make
want for basic needs common, and thus restart the class
struggle all over again. Just, as it happens, as ended up
being the case in the Soviet Union.

So it really tells us very little, other than serving as a
data point that matches one of Marx' predictions.

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