I unironically believe this but with the 80s youth in the USSR that idolized western culture and sought reforms so they could have more commodities. People born after the Revolution really didn’t know what they had.
there really needs to be independent socialist reporting in the future, i feel. state media is often hamfisted and actually showing how shit capitalist societies are with a human face is way better than any propaganda outlet.
Idk, as a rebellious youth, you too will listen to Pink Floyd if you know it gets you a questioning by the cops and reduces your good behaviour score at school. If you're bold enough to wear jeans and long hair you might even get labeled as a deviant.
Let's not romanticise the USSR, while scooping the very problematic aspects of it under the rug...
Obviously the youth was shaped by the society in which they grew up, but I still don’t like the trend. I don’t think 80s teenage culture solely killed the USSR, it was Kruschev and his successive leaders.
I don't quite know what Trotsky was all on about with this concept but the idea that a society might need subsequent revolutions seems like it has some merit. It might take a revolution to get into the lower phase of communism and yet another revolution to move closer to the higher form. N+1 revolutions until convergence.
I unironically believe this but with the 80s youth in the USSR that idolized western culture and sought reforms so they could have more commodities. People born after the Revolution really didn’t know what they had.
there really needs to be independent socialist reporting in the future, i feel. state media is often hamfisted and actually showing how shit capitalist societies are with a human face is way better than any propaganda outlet.
China seems to be doing a pretty alright job, letting people come here and see for themselves like going to a zoo of human misery.
Idk, as a rebellious youth, you too will listen to Pink Floyd if you know it gets you a questioning by the cops and reduces your good behaviour score at school. If you're bold enough to wear jeans and long hair you might even get labeled as a deviant.
Let's not romanticise the USSR, while scooping the very problematic aspects of it under the rug...
Yeah to say it's just the youth's fault and not a bigger problem with the Soviet government in general post-Stalin is asinine.
Obviously the youth was shaped by the society in which they grew up, but I still don’t like the trend. I don’t think 80s teenage culture solely killed the USSR, it was Kruschev and his successive leaders.
Yeah that's what I'm saying.
Complacency is the death of revolution
One might even say that the revolution needs to be... permanent
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I don't quite know what Trotsky was all on about with this concept but the idea that a society might need subsequent revolutions seems like it has some merit. It might take a revolution to get into the lower phase of communism and yet another revolution to move closer to the higher form. N+1 revolutions until convergence.
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