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Re:I wrote a small piece on planned death by loup-vaillant on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:38AM (#11628203)
> the USSR was created explicitly with the end-goal of leading to a communist society […]

I'm not sure that's true. Granted, it was ostensibly, outwardly created for that purpose. But I'm not sure that was the actual intent of those who lead that charge.

My History is quite dusty, so I wonder what exactly brought about the dictatorships you mentioned. Besides, it wouldn't be the first time a revolution lead to (near) absolutism. The French revolution for instance lead to Napoleon. Given this, I wonder how representative governments were able to emerge at all. It doesn't make me very optimistic about the possibility for democracy either. (Yeah, for various reasons, representative governments are hardly democratic: elected leaders are very poor proxies for the will of the people.)

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Re:I wrote a small piece on planned death by mafribe on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @09:45AM (#11628255) 

   the actual intent
We cannot look into people's head. We have to take into account what they say they do. Yes, we can question to what extent they were telling the truth, possibly even to themselves.

   wouldn't be the first time
That's why revolutionary political movements continue having a bad name.
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Re:I wrote a small piece on planned death by loup-vaillant on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:29PM (#11629487)
> We cannot look into people's head. We have to take into account what they say they do.

The latter often gives a pretty good insight about the former. The fact that USSR became a dictatorship so quickly makes the leaders of the movement look pretty bad.

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