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I believe the best response to the question "What went wrong with the Soviet Union" is "What went wrong with the rest of the world? Why didn't it emulate and improve on the Soviet revolution, to show what socialism was capable of in more industrially advanced countries?" isn't the best criticism to show how it should have been done? Who among us can offer that? Lester S. On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Douglas Greene <greene.doug...@ymail.com>wrote: > ====================================================================== > Rule #1: YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > ====================================================================== > > > Review > by Doug Enaa Greene > The Contradictions of Real Socialism: the Conductor and > the Conducted > By > Michael A. Lebowitz > New > York: Monthly Review Press, 2012. > 221 > pages > Even > though the dominant capitalist system is experiencing its worst crisis in > decades, those in search of Marxist alternatives are often scared off by > this > regular refrain from the system's defenders: “Well, what about the USSR? > Things > didn't work out quite so well there.” > > > Indeed. > The popular memory of the USSR is one of bureaucratic red tape, long lines > for > basic necessities and harsh repression. If the Marxist answer is that the > inevitable outcome of any revolution is merely the drab and misery of the > USSR, > then it is best to accept capitalism (with all its warts). Or so we are > led to > believe. > > http://links.org.au/node/3176 > ________________________________________________ > Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu > Set your options at: > http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/schonbrun%40gmail.com > ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: Marxism@greenhouse.economics.utah.edu Set your options at: http://greenhouse.economics.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
