>In a message dated 12/16/99 8:49:38 PM Pacific Standard Time,
>furuhashi.1 at osu.edu writes:
>
><< Perhaps anarchists think that
> it would have been better had the USSR never existed.
>
> Yoshie >>
>
>I'd say there's no "perhaps" about it.
Ok, say there was an anarchist revolution in Russia in 1917. What would you have done surrounded by hostile capitalist states that put you under economic blockade and send in armed counterrevolutionaries? At the same time you're facing a capital strike by your own local business class. How would you keep basic production and distribution mechanisms going?
Doug