real life rarely conforms to the models cooked up by the intelligentsia

>>18220327
Because communists in germany were defeated and massacred by freikorps but managed to win in russia

>>18220350
But the dialectic says they should have won in Germany and that Russia should have become capitalist first.

>>18220327
In general, I don't like political ideologies that claim the same model and their dictates must apply to everyone.

In other words, it's absurd to expect a human being to behave in a predictable way, like saying, "If John has problems with nails, then everyone must have the same problem," "If Maria ate ice cream after being fired, then everyone eats ice cream when they're fired," or "If Tommy got rich selling lemonade, then everyone can get rich selling lemonade." Now imagine applying that logic to a country or culture.

>>18220341
underrated

>>18220327
This is exactly why communists (correctly) point out that the USSR wasn’t communist. It didn’t appropriate productive infrastructure from capitalists. It made all of the productive infrastructure itself after the revolution. It was really more of a slave revolt than a communist revolution.