• Lenin's Dumbbell
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    4 days ago

    It’s something I have been hoping for. Despite the constant propaganda by the West, Putin isn’t an idiot. He was around when the USSR was alive. Surely he knows that it’s inevitable that socialism will win. He can’t stop it. So I hope when the time comes, he knows there’s no way out and gives up power.

    But that’s an idealist stance. Capitalism isn’t overthrown that easily. Putin will be put on a pike by the oligarchs long before they give up their wealth.

    But then again, Russia is a unique case in the sense that it had a fully socialist economy, regressed, but still maintains its industrial base as well as socialist cultural elements from its history. And it was never infected with Western capitalism like former Soviet states. Systematic dismantling of communist elements never happened in Russia