The Leftist Commune

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[–]Alan_Crowe 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

I've always thought that the Russian revolution of 1917 was a failure. All those people getting sent to the Gulag, or being taken out and shot. Clear signs of failure, I don't have to inquire further. I don't have to copy Sakichi Toyoda and ask "why?" five times.

But I've been gifted the answer to the first why. Why have people taken out and shot? Because there is a kind of gentle uselessness which is irredeemable. Tolerate it and get bled white. Try to correct it and be dragged down by it.

Second why: why are people like that? The congealing of gentle uselessness into entitlement is a mystery to me :-(

Third why: actually I'm still stuck on the second why.

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Also the USSR did pay millions of people to stand around and watch other people actually work.

So they did find they had a large number of unproductive people they had to make use of even after they'd killed most of the middle class poets.