I've read the sentence about anarchists ten times and I have no idea WTF he is on about. Btw the nerd's name is Peter Hudis.
Edit: FFS Tankies and anarchists stop shitting on each other here. Take your struggle session elsewhere. You're both my comrades.
and yet the infrastructure had already been set up that despite it going against the wishes of the people living there, communism left the country. that weakness to foreign capital is a weakness of the system, especially one that claims to count for such factors
China followed a different line entirely, there was the entire sino-soviet split after all. a critique of the USSR's communism does not imply a damning indictment on China.
Are you literally going to ignore aggressive and violent efforts to destroy the USSR by the West? Whatevs, this isn't the place for a struggle session. Please leave my lighthearted post to dunk on a Western intellectual nerd.
That is not what they said. They are saying the aggressive and violent efforts to destroy the USSR succeeding means the USSR had weaknesses.