Yeah, that’s my big hope as well. Now that the western liberalism is largely discredited in Russia, and all their core allies are socialist states, maybe it’ll start to rub off.
I can’t really see him embracing communism to be honest. He’s been fairly vocal in saying he thinks USSR was a failure. But, people are starting to realize that not everything was bad in USSR, and that it got a lot of things right.
In Marxist terminology, socialism is a transitional stage where existing capitalist relations persist, but the working class holds power in society. So, if Russia can get to a place where there is a communist party firmly in charge the way there is in China, then it would enter socialist stage of development.
Yeah, that’s my big hope as well. Now that the western liberalism is largely discredited in Russia, and all their core allies are socialist states, maybe it’ll start to rub off.
If Putin were to fully embrace communism, would he have the support to win an election?
I can’t really see him embracing communism to be honest. He’s been fairly vocal in saying he thinks USSR was a failure. But, people are starting to realize that not everything was bad in USSR, and that it got a lot of things right.
Hmm, are we coming to the place where “socialism” is “communism lite?” I’m really tired and probably shouldn’t be posting right now, but we’ll see.
In Marxist terminology, socialism is a transitional stage where existing capitalist relations persist, but the working class holds power in society. So, if Russia can get to a place where there is a communist party firmly in charge the way there is in China, then it would enter socialist stage of development.
I was speaking tongue in cheek, using it the way other instances do. My b.