>>777854- Abolished the Soviets (workers' councils) that formed during the February Revolution.
- Nipped in the bud the most ambitious avant-garde art movement worldwide and replaced it with kitsch "socialist realism" art after 1928.
- Stalin purging all the Old Bolsheviks and killing good thinkers like Isaak Ilyich Rubin, while sparing opportunists
- Brezhnev stopping the program of reduction of labour time (the goal was to reach a 32 hour workweek) started under Khrushchev, and making the economy stagnant, setting the stage for the future collapse
- And perhaps but I'm not too familiar with this period, the War in Afghanistan, which precipitated the terminal decline of the USSR.
The USSR did some good things, but they did plenty of mistakes. Defending it blindly won't bring it back and won't help us understand what a new 21th century socialist movement should do in order to change the world for the better.
>>777857>We can tellIt's not a very good look for self-proclaimed Marxists when an anarchist know Marx's theory better than you.
>>777866I thought the author of GMIL was a woman?
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