The Soviet Union was the world’s first socialist state. They in fact did the absolute opposite of what the US is doing now. The Soviet Union helped liberate colonies around the world, supporting revolutions in countries like Algeria and Cuba, which earned them the ire and sanctions from the capitalist bloc.
The US Empire is imperialist, bank and industrial capital merged to form finance capital long ago, and this has centered the US economy around capital export and expropriation of wealth from the global south. It’s no coincidence that the African socialists of the 20th century, like Kwame Nkrumah, turned to the Soviet Union for support in industrializing.
I don’t understand this comment. The Soviet Union was a socialist project that failed to create a stateless classless moneyless society, but did plenty of things to advance the position of workers. What exactly is the US doing now that is similar to the Soviet Union?
To be clear, the USSR did not “fail to reach communism,” reaching such a stateless, classless, moneyless society must be worldwide. The USSR merely established the pre-requisites for such a society in Eastern Europe. The entire world must turn socialist first before communism can be established.
The USSR was anti-imperialist. It neither committed imperialism as Marxists understand it as a stage of monopoly capitalism, nor did it imperialize in the colloquial sense. The Soviet Union’s anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism earned it the severe ire of the capitalist world, as they directly harmed western superprofits by propping up revolutions around the world against colonialism and imperialism.
They teach that communism is evil where they should be teaching Soviet Union wasn’t communist, they were doing the same thing the US is doing now.
The Soviet Union was the world’s first socialist state. They in fact did the absolute opposite of what the US is doing now. The Soviet Union helped liberate colonies around the world, supporting revolutions in countries like Algeria and Cuba, which earned them the ire and sanctions from the capitalist bloc.
The US Empire is imperialist, bank and industrial capital merged to form finance capital long ago, and this has centered the US economy around capital export and expropriation of wealth from the global south. It’s no coincidence that the African socialists of the 20th century, like Kwame Nkrumah, turned to the Soviet Union for support in industrializing.
there are people around who think Soviet Union still IS communist. (Or at least Russia, but it’s all the same!)
Yeah, those are usually the people who never were anywhere near either
I don’t understand this comment. The Soviet Union was a socialist project that failed to create a stateless classless moneyless society, but did plenty of things to advance the position of workers. What exactly is the US doing now that is similar to the Soviet Union?
To be clear, the USSR did not “fail to reach communism,” reaching such a stateless, classless, moneyless society must be worldwide. The USSR merely established the pre-requisites for such a society in Eastern Europe. The entire world must turn socialist first before communism can be established.
Being imperialist
The USSR was anti-imperialist. It neither committed imperialism as Marxists understand it as a stage of monopoly capitalism, nor did it imperialize in the colloquial sense. The Soviet Union’s anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism earned it the severe ire of the capitalist world, as they directly harmed western superprofits by propping up revolutions around the world against colonialism and imperialism.
I’m stealing this.
Either you’re replying to the wrong comment, or you need to go back and reread the comments you did reply to