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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the problem with Soviet Union Communism, not Marxism (like the problem with Hitler wasn't nationalistic politics in general,

• anentropic 12y ago
  though people argue that even if you make the distinction, one thing tends to lead toward the other
• jevgeni 12y ago
  There were a lot of problems with the USSR. If we look at it only from an economic point of view, then it failed because planned economy is broken by design.
• dragonwriter 12y ago
  > Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't the problem with Soviet Union Communism, not Marxism "Communism" was the name of the system Marx advocated (the title of his work with Engels is The Communist Manifesto.) Now, Soviet Communism is distinct from Marx's Communism in that it is based in Leninist vanguardism, which still calls itself Marxist, but radically departs from Marxism in a number of ways, both in terms of understood preconditions and program, in order to address the fact that Russia was not an developed capitalist society of the type Marx's theory was based in.