(March 19, 2026 at 7:47 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: @Leonardo17
Quote:- I mean it ended up being George Orwell’s “Animal Farm”. But there were communist values. Communist work ethics. The communist doctrine was nothing like Hitler’s completely sick ideology either. There are still communists in this world too. While admitting that the first experiment failed rather badly, many are still critical of our liberal values and believe that communist ideals are simply better.
I was referring to your implication that the USSR made any kind of an effort to create a classless society. Of all the major figures in the October Revolution, the only one who was fully committed to a classless ‘worker’s paradise’ was Trotsky, and he wound up in Mexico City with an ice axe in his skull.
Boru
Lenin too wanted to build communism I would say. I suppose most of early Soviet leadership wanted it but all enthusiasm in the world will not help in materializing utopia.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.


