There has never been a communist state. After the Revolution the USSR may have been moving that way but never got there. However close they may (or may not have) come, they were completely derailed by Stalin.
The USSR and every other so-called communist state were actually State-Capitalists. That is they were in fact capitalist however the means of production were owned by the state rather than individuals or corporations (who are, as we all know, legal persons). So whatever happened to the USSR and the Warsaw Pact states, it wasn't happening to commies. Cheers, frank On November 16, 2015 6:23:56 PM EST, Mark Roberts <[email protected]> wrote: >Daniel J. Matyola wrote: > >>On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Collin B <[email protected]> >wrote: >>> Commumism was never containable >> >>Communism WAS contained. > >I don't know if it was contained so much as left to implode by itself. > -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -- Henri Cartier-Bresson Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.

