• Maeve
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    8 days ago

    If Putin were to fully embrace communism, would he have the support to win an election?

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      8 days ago

      I can’t really see him embracing communism to be honest. He’s been fairly vocal in saying he thinks USSR was a failure. But, people are starting to realize that not everything was bad in USSR, and that it got a lot of things right.

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        7 days ago

        Hmm, are we coming to the place where “socialism” is “communism lite?” I’m really tired and probably shouldn’t be posting right now, but we’ll see.

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          7 days ago

          In Marxist terminology, socialism is a transitional stage where existing capitalist relations persist, but the working class holds power in society. So, if Russia can get to a place where there is a communist party firmly in charge the way there is in China, then it would enter socialist stage of development.

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            I was speaking tongue in cheek, using it the way other instances do. My b.