Somebody Somebody wrote:
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Socialism didn't get it's ass beat in the 20th century due to a failure
to fully grapple with epistemological or metaphysical questions. It was
because it didn't provide the right answers to questions dealing with
the relations of production.
Oh fuck! The same voluntraism that poisons most attempts to "judge" past socialist struggles. (Incientally, this personification of Socialism is a bit silly too.) Socialist movements failed because after doint as well as it was possible to do, the working classes of the world were simply weaker thab capitalism. Nothing socialist movementts/leaders might have done differently would have changed the outcome.
Carrol