2003-06-30
... ? Anti-anti-americanism | Metafilter:FACT: we will never know what the Soviet State could have been, due to the concerted effort, on the past of the western capitalist industrial powers, to crush socialism in Russia from it's very inception (through sending troops and supporting the White Russian counterrevolution, and when this was unsuccesfull, through economic boycott.) The USSR came very close, at one point, to going the 'European' way of a 'mixed' economy. I would suggest that attempts to crush the Russian socialist experiment may have tipped that balance point, and that they certainly helped provoke the experiment's metastisization into Stalinism.