VGPolyglot said:
How is that a lame excuse? It's a common misconception that the regimes claimed to have been communist, when that was not the case. Instead they "claimed" that their goal was to eventually reach communism (a claim that I don't believe myself). |
@bolded: Excellent, and sorry for having misunderstood you on this. About what happened in "real socialisms", if they never achieved "true communism", probably it's because it's not possible, due to the human nature, they all give too much power to apparatchik, and too many of them, even when not wanting to abuse of that power, become greedy for it.
BTW, politics isn't an exact science, but even if it were, if observed results deny the theory, there must be something wrong in the theory, or maybe theories just don't apply because they were based on ill-posed problems (two examples are Marx wrongly presuming capitalists won't evolve and adapt quicker than their counterparts and underestimating the growing role of the middle classes and their importance in economy, the latter a mistake that utopian socialists and social democrats, that he and Lenin liked to mock, didn't commit, and this better grasp of reality allowed them to lay the bases of more than decently working northern social democracies).







