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In These Times loves Bhaskar Sunkara's "Socialist Manifesto":
http://inthesetimes.com/article/21852/socialist-manifesto-democratic-socialism-bhaskar-sunkara-bernie-sanders
On the other hand, the experience of the Soviet Union shows us that the
overnight abolition of private property by administrative decree—and the
imposition of socialism from above by a radicalized vanguard party
without a mass base—can quickly devolve into authoritarianism,
particularly when faced with both domestic and international
counterrevolutionary forces.
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Overnight abolition of private property? WTF? First there was War
Communism, dictated by the exigencies of the civil war. As soon as the
civil war ended, the USSR adopted the New Economic Policy. I can't wait
to grab the collar of this stupid book and give it a good shaking.
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