(March 2, 2013 at 11:19 pm)TaraJo Wrote: The irony is that socialism and communism gets popular when capitalism gets too powerful and corrupt. Remember, there wasn't a communist revolution in Russia until after the general public was being crushed by corrupt capitalists.
As a double annoyance, I don't think the second part of your statement is accurate either. I would hardly consider Czarist Russia to be a capitalist state. I think they were more or less a Feudal society still. According to Marx, Capitalism replaced Feudalism and Socialism would replace Capitalism. So they peasants in Russia never lived under Capitalism, they skipped a step.