Tag: Soviet Union

Blowback for the Twenty-First Century: Remembering Chalmers Johnson 

Johnson warned that the collapse of the Soviet Union in the wake of the war in Afghanistan should have been a warning to Washington. Even more ominously, at a moment when this country’s foreign-policy establishment considered us the “indispensable nation” (Secretary of State Madeleine Albright’s phrase), he suggested that we were already experiencing “imperial overextension” and on the long downward slope that all empires experience sooner or later.

Source: Blowback for the Twenty-First Century: Remembering Chalmers Johnson – CounterPunch.org

Marxism and the waste of a golden opportunity…//The collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin

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This month marks the 30th anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union. The most powerful deformed workers’ state was collapsing into chaos as supposed communists were looting the state and its assets, cheered on by the imperialists of the west.

Source: The collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin

Although not the whole story it is significant as here and essential for the (Marxist) left to disown the whole Bolshevik fiasco. Continue reading “Marxism and the waste of a golden opportunity…//The collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of Putin” →

The Soviet Union may have had an idea that was ahead of its time – 

The dream of central economic planning died with the USSR. Thirty years later, technologies for matching supply and demand are a reality in America — as is the potential for surveillance Lenin and Stalin could only have dreamed of.

Source: The Soviet Union may have had an idea that was ahead of its time – The Boston Globe