Political Theory

Re: how idealogicly commited were citizens of the communist world

Natalie — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 17:50:52 GMT

From what I remember of the 1980s, no one really believed in the socialism anymore since the reality of life in the USSR was so blatantly different from the official version. Of course now many Russians are disappointed in the market reforms (as if there's really a free market in Russia, it's been hijacked by the plutocrats) and are nostalgic over the Soviet period.

Re: how idealogicly commited were citizens of the communist world

Andrew Cain — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:31:10 GMT

Caley McKibbin:

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Its the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Re: how idealogicly commited were citizens of the communist world

Caley McKibbin — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 02:26:59 GMT

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Re: how idealogicly commited were citizens of the communist world

twistedbydsign99 — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:16:26 GMT

scineram:
This committed.

Is that an obama public speech? jk.

Re: how idealogicly commited were citizens of the communist world

scineram — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:09:13 GMT

This committed.

Re: how idealogicly commited were citizens of the communist world

garegin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:51:54 GMT

what nationality are you

Re: how idealogicly commited were citizens of the communist world

Taras Smereka — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:47:18 GMT

Was born in CCCP, moved with my parents over here when I was 3. Don't personally know much about how it was, though we moved to the USA because it is better.

Re: how idealogicly commited were citizens of the communist world

garegin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 04:44:43 GMT

huh, this makes me the only soviet kid here. better invent a time machine and visit some state owned barbershops

Re: how idealogicly commited were citizens of the communist world

garegin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 03:02:30 GMT

by asking a couple of people around who lived in soviet union i am getting the same impression when i talk to 15 yr old chomskyites. money, bad, decedance, coca cola. basicly the people who did believe in socialism were utopian with no grasp of political economy.

Re: how idealogicly commited were citizens of the communist world

liberty student — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:30:45 GMT

Take a look at this

http://mises.org/Community/forums/t/4727.aspx

It has some related material.

how idealogicly commited were citizens of the communist world

garegin — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:20:48 GMT

this post was inspired by the fact that the chinese communist party is a naked emperor. this lead me to think whether people in ussr or eastern block really believed in marxism-leninism? i mean lot of europeans are basicly state-socialists who hate the rich. from my the parents (my family is from armenia) i take it that the people were basicly utopian socialists who were hopeful for its coming but didnt really understand "historical materialism" ,if you will.

anyways this is not a debate of the ideology but a historical question