On Sat, Oct 12, 2024 at 09:55 PM, gojko rakic wrote: > > Without democracy, there is no socialism. 'The Soviet Union in the Stalin > era' is not socialism.
Not the issue, is it. The fSU wasn't "socialist" because Stalin's rule was "undemocratic." The fSU wasn't socialist because the revolution that established it occurred as a result of uneven and combined development. The UaCD imposed all the "tasks" of capitalist development on it and made a reciprocating international expansion of proletarian revolution the essential requirement, not for the revolution itself, but for the achievement of socialism in any particular location. That the Soviet Union was not socialist, but a "transitional form" is as indisputable as the fact that its origin was in a proletarian revolution. Questions of Stalin's "popularity" are irrelevant. What is/was critical is the assessment of the fSU's role in the fate of that international revolution. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32890): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32890 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/108969231/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
