Pretty wild to think if Kruschev hadn't given a speech, then a massive multinational economic and political structure would never have collapsed. Really neat how it's revisionism that is the cause and that history is driven by the action of conscious historical actors and not larger forces connected to the underlying conditions of production.
Without the post Stalin revisions and reforms commodity production without official market competition and other contradictions would have likely led to a similar outcome, but the course could have still been variant with differences.
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, etc.
Pretty wild to think if Kruschev hadn't given a speech, then a massive multinational economic and political structure would never have collapsed. Really neat how it's revisionism that is the cause and that history is driven by the action of conscious historical actors and not larger forces connected to the underlying conditions of production.
As Karl Marx famously said: "All history is the history of party intrigues."
I'm not smart enough to understand if there is sarcasm or not.
Without the post Stalin revisions and reforms commodity production without official market competition and other contradictions would have likely led to a similar outcome, but the course could have still been variant with differences.
Men make their own history, but they do not make it as they please; they do not make it under self-selected circumstances, etc.