Bah! Russia had already researched Steel, Mass Production, and the Labor Union, so clearly it was ready for Communism.
--- On Thu, 8/13/09, Matthias Wasser <matthias.wasser at gmail.com> wrote:
If you think that
> the world is more
> like Sid Meier's Civilization and that each society is on
> its own
> progressing from this stage to that stage and eventually to
> that other stage
> - which is of course the understanding we invoke when we
> talk about "the
> developing world," &c. - then Kautsky's point that it's
> stupid to install
> communism in Russia holds.
>