[lbo-talk] Gorbachev: I Should Have Left the Communist Party Earlier

SA s11131978 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 18 04:58:47 PDT 2011


On 8/18/2011 7:53 AM, Doug Henwood wrote:


> On Aug 18, 2011, at 1:09 AM, Bhaskar Sunkara wrote:
>
>> But the question wasn't whether Gorbachev was "good" or a "loser," but
>> rather how important he was.
> Wasn't he the tool of a CPSU that had pretty much decided that it wanted to end Communism and be like, say, the Christian Democrats in Germany? That's what I got from Boris Kagarlitsky when there still was a USSR.

Balderdash. They picked him to make Communism work better. He and his hand-picked advisers had other ideas.

SA



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