What's the Difference Between a Peasant and an Indigenous Subsistence Farmer?
A peasant is a lot like an indigenous subsistence farmer, but there are two main things that separate them. The difference is that the peasant community has been conquered by a more powerful force and then they get exploited by that force. And these conquering powers usually organize themselves into states in order to maintain their relations of exploitation and domination over the peasants. That's exactly why most states came to existence in the first place.
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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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