File spoon-archives/marxism-intro.archive/marxism-intro_2001/marxism-intro.0111, message 36


From: slcathena-AT-pseud.pseud
Subject: Re: M-INTRO: From Feudalism to Socialism
Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 00:10:26 +0000


They didn't.  The Russian society, particularly under Stalin, attempted a 
rapid modernization in order to make up for the fact that they had jumped 
over Capitalism.  While they made dramatic leaps in terms of industry, they 
did it with EXTREME working conditions.  Additionally, quality suffered 
under such plans.  Additionally many of Lenin's writings deal with the 
discrepancy you are talking about.  It is basically his attempt to prove 
that they were a communist government even though they had not followed 
Marx.

Furthermore it is not fair to the theory espoused by Marx to compare Marx's 
conceptions of communism with the Soviet Union.  You stated the biggest 
discrepancy yourself, but to say that the Soviet Union was the type of 
Communism that Marx was talking about just because they said it was does a 
diservice to Marx's analysis.  The Soviet Union was not what Marx had in 
mind when he wrote about communism.


>From: KaiserW-AT-pseud.pseud
>Reply-To: marxism-intro-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: marxism-intro-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: M-INTRO: From Feudalism to Socialism
>Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 16:46:05 -0500
>
>In the time before the Bolshevic revolution, Russia was a Feudalistic 
>country. After the revolution, the country was under aCommunistic rule. 
>Now, if Marx said that the building block of Socialism is Capitalism, then 
>how did Russia go from Feudalistic to Communistic?
>
>
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