Re: Failure of socialist revolution in the West is fault of Kremlin

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

Chris Doss wrote:
> Actually there was experimental art in the Soviet
> Union. It was just not exhibited in public places. I
> know some of the people involved. They exhibited in
> their apartments. Just because something was not
> officially sponsored does not mean that it did not
> exist.

I love your deadpan sense of humor.

> People in the West really, really exaggerate the
> repressiveness of the Soviet Union, in my opinion. I
> don't know who is worse on this, the conservatives,
> the Trotskyists or the anarchists. They all needed an
> Evil Empire to compare themselves too.

It is true that repression eased up after Stalin's reign of terror. But
that's because it had already done its job in reducing a mobilized and
assertive working class into an atomized, authoritarian minded herd.


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