Did we tried to establish communism the marxian way? Lets take Russia, China and Vietnam. They all got from feudalism to socialism without even putting down capitalism. Furthermore, if I remember correctly, the revolutions which took place in those country came from the intellectual class instead of the proletariat.
Please enlight me.
Communism hasn't been established and all those countries were/are state capitalist
Wrong
Russia was industrializing
>>2816385>intellectual classno such thing
>They all got from feudalism to socialism without even putting down capitalism.
The idea that you must go through a formulaic progression through each stage of development is dogmatic I think. The real significance of Marx's works is that socialism is impossible before capitalism and capitalist methods of production (i.e. industrialization) are widespread. It doesn't follow from this that each individual country needs to be capitalist before it can be socialist, especially if the techniques and technology to establish an industrial base can simply be imported from capitalist countries, as the Soviets did. Marx argued that Western Europe was already ready for a socialist revolution in the mid 19th century, despite the fact that the bulk of the population were still peasants.
>Furthermore, if I remember correctly, the revolutions which took place in those country came from the intellectual class instead of the proletariat.
You remember incorrectly. All political movements have a component of intelligentsia. The class character of a movement is determined by who forms the bulk of its ranks, strongest base of support, and what objective class interests it represents.
>>2816890Were they state capitalist? I remember some writer criticizing this view of the USSR because it had so many small private farms.