I feel like it happens with every large capitalist institution.
My mind goes to all those consulting services that make up lies to push people away from organising and solidarity, and their staff is slowly replaced by people who really believe those lies.
We really really need a culture of hard-truth under socialism or it is exactly what will happen to ascendant socialist societies when they get full of themselves and high on their own supply as well.
The common perception is interestingly the reverse for the USSR, going from true believer revolutionaries to cynics propping up the system a few generations later. How true that actually is, idk
Why didn't that happen to Cuba though? America's siege creating something to blame and making people go into siege mentality in defence of the nation? Proletarian nationalism?
I'm sure people perceive Cuba as going through the same thing, hence my reservations about saying that it's an actual inevitability or even happened at all in the USSR, just the perception.
I think really all forms of socialism would have to really grapple with all forms of institutional rot. How to maintain energy and competence over several generations within an organisation or a movement isn't something we've necessarily solved.
I feel like it happens with every large capitalist institution.
My mind goes to all those consulting services that make up lies to push people away from organising and solidarity, and their staff is slowly replaced by people who really believe those lies.
We really really need a culture of hard-truth under socialism or it is exactly what will happen to ascendant socialist societies when they get full of themselves and high on their own supply as well.
The common perception is interestingly the reverse for the USSR, going from true believer revolutionaries to cynics propping up the system a few generations later. How true that actually is, idk
Why didn't that happen to Cuba though? America's siege creating something to blame and making people go into siege mentality in defence of the nation? Proletarian nationalism?
I'm sure people perceive Cuba as going through the same thing, hence my reservations about saying that it's an actual inevitability or even happened at all in the USSR, just the perception.
I think really all forms of socialism would have to really grapple with all forms of institutional rot. How to maintain energy and competence over several generations within an organisation or a movement isn't something we've necessarily solved.