Marx Never Published Anything on the Subject of Russian Property
In 1872, Marx told Danielson that he planned to devote a whole section of capital volume three to the topic of Russian property. But unfortunately, Marx never ended up publishing anything on the issue besides a short preface to the 1882 edition of the Communist Manifesto. In other words, if events in Russia, like the overthrow of the monarchy and spy revolution in the West, then the communist West can help Russia build socialism on a peasant economy.
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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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