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Re:North Korea Fires Rockets at South Korean Island by psyconn on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @07:29AM (#1933474)
> Of the famous recentish revolutions, it should for example be remembered that Marx stipulated the "communist revolution" should happen in the highly industrialised nations (ill-advised as the idea of armed revolution is). Russia in particular, a backwards agrarian empire, was about the last place he thought would be ready for it. And turned out he was right.

Do not forget the marxist model was exported by Russia wherever it could (Easter Europe block pops in mind) and failed in every case even if the country was industrialised. It is just plain wrong. Even China ditched it and now has real chances of becoming a superpower.

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Re:North Korea Fires Rockets at South Korean Island by rue on Tuesday November 23, 2010 @07:36AM (#1933487)
China was (at that time) also a pretty backwards agrarian empire after its more glorious days. I do not want to delve too far off-topic, but then you are talking about two completely different things:

A) An internal revolution (borne out of people's desire to change their system in the idealised version);

B) An already-failed-at-communism totalitarian state's external enforcement of totalitarianism upon a mostly unwilling populace.

The latter will, of course, not work. The former might.

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