Marxists who hate Gorbachev

DirtySanchezDirtySanchez Regular
edited February 2011 in Spurious Generalities
Onme trend among most socialist/Marxists that I hate is all the hate towards Michail Gorbachev. They act as though Gorbachev was a capitalist who turned against Marxism when he became leader o the USSR.. they act as though h somehow betrayed the revolution. This is bullshit because even to this day Gorbachev is a Socialist.

I agree that Glasnost and perestroika were poorly managed but they were designed with good intentions. It was Boris Yeltsin who dissolved the ussr and was the bitch boy of capitalism. Yeltsin was the one who privatized the industry not Gorbachev.

Gorbachev was faced with multiple crisis's when he assumed power. He aced a disastrous war in afghanistan and severe stagnation as a result o that war and the arms race with america. He did what he could to try an save the Soviet union but in the end he failed. In the end I regard him as one o the great socialist leaders and not a capitalist lapdog that some Marxists claim he was.

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  • Darth BeaverDarth Beaver Meine Ehre heißt Treue
    edited February 2011
    :facepalm: How old were you in 1991? Yeltsin never really ran the USSR he merely presided over the collapse of it and it's entrhy into the free market. The entire system could not be sustained because communism = fail. Human nature will never allow it to succeed no more than a cows nature can be make it like eating beef.
  • RolfRolf Regular
    edited February 2011
    :facepalm:

    Don't argue with communist idiots, they'll bring you down to their level of idiocy and then beat you with experience, states Rolf.
  • ScuDScuD Regular
    edited February 2011
    their is no such thing as human nature. human behavior can be changed by changing our enviroments. i think that is what the spirit of socialism is.
  • Darth BeaverDarth Beaver Meine Ehre heißt Treue
    edited February 2011
    ScuD wrote: »
    their is no such thing as human nature. human behavior can be changed by changing our enviroments. i think that is what the spirit of socialism is.

    OK so we are the only mammal without instincts or subconscious behavior patterns. Socialism's spirit is not about changing human nature. Out of all the stupid comments I have witnessed over the last 49 years that is by far the most ignorant thing I have ever read.
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