The cancer infecting the political Left

[Bob Butler 54]

(12-01-2020, 06:07 AM)Einzige Wrote: The history is entirely explained by the theory: every State in which a Communist Party took power in the 20th century was a pre-capitalist agrarian society. Lenin wrote an entire book, The Tax In Kind, justifying the retention of wage labor and commodity production for exchange in the Soviet Union, and indeed the introduction of market relations where none had previously existed.

The Soviet Union was a capitalist society. It never ceased to be capitalist, and could not have done so under the circumstances

As I said, the theory was never implemented.  It seems to have discredited itself before anyone tried it.  The reason it was rejected was a lack of understanding of the elites.  Those who are good at winning revolutions will not let go of absolute power once they have it.

If the theory includes a way where the people have power over the elites and leaders, it might gather followers.  Unfortunately, democracy is the obvious way to do that.  With the US alliance between the elites and the racists, concern for the working man and minorities has been thus far been suppressed.

We will see if this crisis changes that any, but Marxism is not a viable player on the stage.  It will not be without a way of checking the leaders and elites.