>>What went wrong fundamentally is that socialist revolutions didn't
>>happen in Europe & North America shortly after the Russian Revolution.
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>>Yoshie
>
>-Do you think it was the only thing that went wrong?
No, but I think that the absence of socialist revolutions in Europe, North America, & Japan was the fundamental problem. Other problems would have still materialized even with socialism in rich nations, but they would certainly have been much less severe.
>-There is another argument: the logical conclusion of the "failure
>-of international revolution" reasoning is that Russia was not
>-prepared for the revolution. So the Mensheviks would be right as
>-far you consider marxist analysis, right?
No, the Bolsheviks were correct to push forward; it's the strength of capital or the weakness of the working class in rich nations or both that are to blame (if it makes sense to assign "blame" in history at all).
Yoshie