Quote from: RE on Today at 01:31 PMTrue it was followed through with, and after the depression and Stalin crushing the Ukie independence movement, it worked fine. Also worked OK before under Lenin & Trotsky before the depression. After the early problems in China, it worked so well they had to institute a 1 child policy to keep the population from ballooning up too fast.The Soviet Union after 1923 was a degenerated workers' state. Property was formally nationalized, but political power had been usurped by a privileged bureaucracy that pushed aside soviet democracy and the working class. Trotsky rejected the sloppy equation of 'Stalinism = socialism.' as Stalinism was a counterrevolutionary distortion arising from the objective contradictions produced by the material conditions of the time.
You conflate the problems of totalitarianism with communism. They are not one in the same thing. Capitalism and totalitarianism aren't the same either, together they are called Fascism. Lotta problems with that system also, as we begin to see now here in the FSoA.
Definitely a phase change coming. Lots more water evaporating from the oceans and lakes into the atmosphere.
RE
Now what will the objective contradictions generated by the material conditions Trump gives to us do. The contradictions will resolve. Such are the physics of real life. How the contradictions resolve will not be pleasant.