On Oct 13, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> your argument misses a much larger point - that in both countries
> socialism was imposed by an imperial power
That it was Russian imperial domination proves that it had no relationship, near or far, to what communists had always regarded as socialism. Stalinist "really existing socialism" had no more to do with socialism than did Hitlerite "national socialism."
Shane Mage
"Thunderbolt steers all things." Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 64