The Stilepen reforms were mostly a big failure on that front. The government did what governments often do, especially non-democratic governments who control the media. They lied. And then the market forces would turn the communist peasants into mom and pop small entrepreneurs. There was no going to the people anarchist movement, at least not a socialist anarchist movement,. In Spain you had anarchist missionaries going from village to village preaching their ideas.
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The leaders of the Russian Revolutions of February and October 1917 sought to establish socialism: a deeply democratic economic and political system where the employee/employer relationship is abolished, and where workers control their workplaces, the means of production and the government via the “free association of the producers”.
Instead the revolutions resulted in the establishment of the Soviet Union: an authoritarian state where the government became the sole employer and the state controlled the workers instead of the other way around.This then became the model for “communist” countries around the world.
Why did the Soviet Union fail at socialism?
What can we learn about this failure to apply to our political struggles in the present and future?
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