Date: Tue, 4 Oct 1994 23:51:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: Alex Trotter <uburoi-AT-panix.com>
Subject: utopia & USSR



Re Chris Sciabarra's post on the utopia/dystopia of the Soviet Union: to 
what extent were the Soviets really utopians? I thought the Bolsheviks 
were very practical, even cynical, men in a lot of ways. The wild 
fantasias of a Fourier were anathema to them. As to 'reform or 
revolution,' it seems there was a good deal of continuity between Social 
Democracy and Bolshevism, particularly in the use of a marxist 
*ideology*. Interesting point, though, about the unforeseen consequences 
of revolutionary upheavals. It makes you wonder, what would Marx have 
made of *chaos theory*?

--AT



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