Politically literate ( most are ) NPR listeners need not be reminded
that this year marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. In
this sense only was the collapse of the Stalinist Soviet Union a great
historical tragedy ( as Vladimir Putin himself called it ) : it gave
neo-liberal philistines in all countries the false idea that global
capitalism was the forever FUTURE. And Karl Marx -not the plutocrats -
had been tossed into the garbage can of History.
But History has not ended. Capitalism in Russia - led by ex-communist Putin and his undemocratic oligarchy ( just like our undemocratic plutocracy )- has a short but dismal record there.. Long ago Leon Trotsky predicted ( " The Revolution Betrayed " ) that the Stalinist bureaucracy was fully capable of leading Russia all the way back to capitalism- restoring private property relations in the state economy. Guess WHO became today's millionaires and billionaires in capitalist Russia ?
Democratic socialists around the world call for real socialism in Russia, in China, in India, in Cuba.... in Europe .... and yes, in the good old USA .
We do not support an insane war against still nuclear power Russia.We do not support the DNC based New McCarthyism in the United States ( which now has a treacherous celebrity voice in erratic film maker Michael Moore ) .
Where is the PEACE movement ?
But History has not ended. Capitalism in Russia - led by ex-communist Putin and his undemocratic oligarchy ( just like our undemocratic plutocracy )- has a short but dismal record there.. Long ago Leon Trotsky predicted ( " The Revolution Betrayed " ) that the Stalinist bureaucracy was fully capable of leading Russia all the way back to capitalism- restoring private property relations in the state economy. Guess WHO became today's millionaires and billionaires in capitalist Russia ?
Democratic socialists around the world call for real socialism in Russia, in China, in India, in Cuba.... in Europe .... and yes, in the good old USA .
We do not support an insane war against still nuclear power Russia.We do not support the DNC based New McCarthyism in the United States ( which now has a treacherous celebrity voice in erratic film maker Michael Moore ) .
Where is the PEACE movement ?
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