On Thu, Oct 17, 2024 at 01:00 AM, John Edmundson wrote: > > Trotsky died 50 years before the collapse of the Soviet Union. Any > 'expectations' he might have had in the1940s for a progressive result in > the USSR have absolutely no bearing on what happened in 1989. >
Neither his nor our expectations right through to 1989 bore any relation to what actually happened, John. I was replying to Artesian's comment that, unlike Lenin, Trotsky, and the Bolsheviks who took power, a true historical materialist would have understood from the outset that the USSR could not survive in a predominantly peasant economy lagging the more advanced industrialized West. In fact, that was what Plekhanov and the Mensheviks warned against, as Gojko pointed out here: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29566 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#32936): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/32936 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/109032615/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
