From: KOROTKOV@auducvax.bitnet
Newsgroups: talk.politics.soviet
Subject: Re: Capitalist restoration in the USSR
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:20:00 GMT
Reply-To: "talk.politics.soviet via ListServ" <TPS-L@indycms.bitnet>


    Ocasionally, I took a look at what is discussed concerning the restoration
capitalism in poor Russia. My goodness, the old, farmiliar names are treated if
not as geniuses, but at least as trustworthy ones. Sure, these guys made the
world feel its guts coming out, they made the history go quite another way
it could. But my point is that Chingiskhan (sorry for the wrong spelling)
did that too. Unfortunately for
him, he did not leave us a comprehensive teaching that we could use on each
occasion. I am sorry, if I'll hurt somebody's professional ambitions, but I'd
like,just for fun, to make some remarks and a couple of points while being
not good educated in the subject.

 Felix <kreisel@SPARK.PFC.MIT.EDU> writes:


>Lenin did not claim that a socialist society could be built in a singe
>country,
>let alone backward Russia.  Were Lenin to say that socialism is possible
>in
>one isolated, especially a backward country, he would be contradicting
>the
>basic materialist tenets of Marxism.
He did!!!
Try to check how he adjusted his insights according to the circum-
stances of the revolution movement in the book: Esther Kingston-Mann, Lenin
and the Problem of the Marxist Peasant Revolution (Oxford, 1983). The title
sounds a little bit strange, does it? But the author did a good job,
I assure you.

>If Lenin, Trotsky and the Bolsheviks did not lead the October revolution,
>then in all probability the Kerensky government would have been
>eventually overthrown by a reactionary tsarist general, either Kornilov or
>someone else, and a reign of terror would have been unleashed on both the
>workers and the peasants.  Russia would have still been defeated in the
>war (please read General Krasnov's memoirs for a sober evaluation of the
>possibility of continuing the war) and dismembered among the victorious
>imperialists just like they did it to the Ottoman and the Austro-Hungarian
>empires.
>Russia, Ukraine, Georgia, etc. today would have ranked with India or
>Bangladesh in their economic, social and cultural levels.

That's great!!! I thought, sorry for my poor imagination, one can hardly
invent  all those calamities which my homeland was subjected to. But Felix
opened up my eyes on the perspective that Russia could expect, if honorable
Bolsheviks did not seize the power. I feel horror.
Especially I am impressed by the last passage. Felix, I hate to say that, but
don't you seem to overestimate a little bit your predictive power? I under-
stand that it is extremely difficult to convince somebody having insights
simular to Felix's, but I dare say that Russians are not always poor
stupid things, as they may appear to someone. More over, I think the same
one can say about Japanese, Koreans, Indians, etc.
But probably, it is hard to conclude having as a guideline the
Marxist-Leninist teaching.

Hey, guys! Maybe, Felix wrote all that just for fun, too???

And finally, let the corpses rest in peace, leave yesterday for yesterday,
we have today instead, okey.

Sincerely,
Anatoly Korotkov