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.
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.