Was the USSR communist?

The Russian Revolution was the greatest event in history, with the working class and poor taking power into their own hands for the first time. In this talk, Keelan Kellegher will speak about the Stalinist degeneration of the USSR that led to its demise.

[dld]

If this is original work, this kid is amazing.

[christopherleary]

These young socialists are wonderful speakers. I have faith in Socialism.

[jesseweideman]

We have to able to understand our failures as marxists and work to implement a true workers' state!!

[derantiobskurant]

What a successful lecture, comrade. Greetings from the German Section!

[tanujSE]

I don't think it was communist as there was no new plan to eliminate the class relation and also the bureaucracy was degenerative force

[charleskesner]

Interesting. Thanks for this discussion.

[heldergoncalves]

WELL What to say about this lecture. Its just Clear Truthfull and Brilliant.

[Serranojaeger]

Bro I need to see all the sources you’re getting from the Soviet union and on the side note the housing problem has only been getting worse since the 1990s in the 50s you could buy 10 houses for a penny (I’m joking about the penny but you get my point) I’m not justifying capitalism It’s just back then in the 50s there’s a lot less people in the US and worldwide to feed and to house then today but I don’t know I would like to hear your comment on this

[cloudmane]

How does one square nationalization of industry with the inability of socialism to exist in one state?

This point confuses me.

[minhng]

Samir Amin paraphrases “bureaucracy” as bourgois ideology

[diabetusultrainstinct]

Stalinists did not believe that the USSR was on its way to communism. Stalin himself kept banging on about the final victory of socialism being when the world revolution is realised. Khrushchevite revisionism is not something that stalinists stand by

[zachmorgan]

Funny...its almost like my idea of history is COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than his...

[justinmathews]

Stalin would have loved him, but still purged him with everyone else.

[reversedragon]

"it could not without the spreading of the revolution" but it did spread, there were several more workers' states and some of them are still standing

[borelespork]

Learn to read and understand Marx Engels Lenin and history too for that matter as your analysis of the Soviet Union dosn't match with any of them. It's always supriced me how the trotskiete retelling of Soviet hostory is so similar to that of the capitalists only difference is that trots make out Trotsky to be a messiah figure even though he was much of an opertunistic buerocrat lusting for power and influence as any one else in the post revolution USSR. At the end of the day it just feels like braindead arguments about transports where nothing matters unless X side wins. And that's not to mention the over exaggerations on historucal figures such as Lenin, Stalin and Trotsky. It was workers that shaped history, not great men, and to say otherwise is an idealogical trap resulted from our current capitalist system.

Please don't bastardize the legacy of the working class for your own political agenda. Your dogmas are not coherent with history and only serves to dilute marxism to the point where liberals can call themselves communists. Communism is not a sect that you join, it's about the things you learn and do.

[dallaskenn]

The USSR was socialist, not communist.

[minhng]

Your criticism of Stalin is seemingly narrow and does not link to historical balckground. Just look at achievements under Stalin, even pro capitalist Russians acknowledge that