Broviet Union
20th March 2014, 19:22
I know most of us have huge problems with the Soviet Union and "actually existing socialism". What is less clear to me, at least, are the alternatives to the tactical routes taken by Bolshevik faux Socialism.
1. How does a worker's revolution comport itself after a successful seizure of power without lapsing into bureaucratic Stalinism, in the absence of international revolution?
2. How does one create a society that is both liberated socially AND able to compete against disciplined, hierarchical bourgeois societies?
3. Can a non-disciplined, freely associated workforce truly produce on the same level as modern Capitalist styles of production? This would be more important in a war situation, I suppose.
1. How does a worker's revolution comport itself after a successful seizure of power without lapsing into bureaucratic Stalinism, in the absence of international revolution?
2. How does one create a society that is both liberated socially AND able to compete against disciplined, hierarchical bourgeois societies?
3. Can a non-disciplined, freely associated workforce truly produce on the same level as modern Capitalist styles of production? This would be more important in a war situation, I suppose.