Thread: Возможно это обидный вопрос?

Спасибо за ваш отевет. I was more after your opinions (ie. whether you think it worked, whether it was good or bad, etc) on these subjects rather than definitions etc, but it's possible to see your opinions shining through in your definitions. Perhaps we better tie off the political side of this thread as I know that political issues can be really controversial etc, lol.

Originally Posted by RussianWelshman

Спасибо за ваш отевет. I was more after your opinions (ie. whether you think it worked, whether it was good or bad, etc) on these subjects rather than definitions etc, but it's possible to see your opinions shining through in your definitions. Perhaps we better tie off the political side of this thread as I know that political issues can be really controversial etc, lol.

Well... There was never classical Marxist communism, though it was a propagandistic "ultimate goal". So called Socialism was sometimes effective and at some stages even nice and it worked good enough to survive almost 80 years but finally it collapsed and reasons of collapse were internal IMO. It was neither good nor bad. It just was.

Now in ex-Soviet countries left ideology is less popular than in Western Europe. Communist parties have some support from old people who feels nostalgia about the past. In fact such communist parties should be classified as conservative with some improper lefty rhetoric which has nothing to do with their actual politics.

'it-ogo' - yes I try to tell people here that soviet russia was never truly communist but was rather socialist, but they have none of it lol: I find that the thought of marx has nothing really to do with soviet russia, maybe the revolution, but not in soviet policy, it was mainly an excuse. It is interesting that you should say that it 'was neither good nor bad. It just was.', a very good way of putting it. That last coment about communists being conservative is very true and not something which many people would even think of.