[lbo-talk] What is socialism?

[c b]

> 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

^^^^
CB: The Soviet Union was not an imperial or colonialist power in
Eastern Europe. There was not an exploitative relationship.

Shane comparison of the SU to Nazi Germany is a big lie and slander.