> The USSR indeed failed, but it wasn't an "experiment" in the sense of
> putting ideas into practice under laboratory conditions. Perhaps those who
> are hostile to historical materialism can't accept the idea that the
> revolution isn't an "experiment," so they can't understand failure either.
I was using the word "experiment" in the sense that the Soviet Union has been called a "socialist experiment." I guess this is in keeping with the silly notion that socialism is "scientific."
> Left up to anarchists, the Russian revolution would not have happened, and
> the USSR wouldn't have come into existence. Perhaps anarchists think that
> it would have been better had the USSR never existed.
I think it would have been better if the USSR had never existed. I think the millions who were killed by Stalin and other Soviet leaders would agree with me. It's a damn shame that the Russian revolution was taken over by assholes like Lenin and his cronies. But anarchists aren't surprised by this. This is why we don't work with authoritarian communists who would shoot us in the back as soon as they take over.
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