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[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 6, 2009, at 14:17 , Sridhar Ayengar wrote:

> Shannon Hendrix wrote:
>> I'm not sure at any time they were communist either.
>> Communism in Russia existed before the revolution in the villages,  
>> where it mostly worked, and afterward what they had was not the  
>> same, no matter what governments and historians call it.
>> Maybe you could call it what happens when communism tries to go  
>> big, but I have never thought of them as communist.
>> It seemed to be a socialist system run by an elite and violent  
>> aristocracy.
>> Whatever you call it, it was a monumental failure that makes a lot  
>> of other crappy governments look good by comparison.
>
> I don't even think it was particularly socialist.  I see it as  
> monarchy being replaced by oligarchy.  The tsar was replaced by the  
> apparatchiks.

It was socialist in its central planning and spending of the people's  
work/money.

But otherwise yes, it was really just a different form of aristocracy  
sitting on the people's backs.


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