The Russia as "Imperialist" Thesis Is Wrong and a Barrier to (Ukrainian) Solidarity

[Tommy_Carcetti]

23. I brought up the USSR because your piece specifically advocates re-forming it.

"The only real solution to the Ukraine crisis is the restoration of workers' power and workers' ownership of the means of production through a revived Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which itself must inevitably be part of a still broader movement that will ultimately involve the workers of the entire world."


Claiming it was some sort of worker's paradise that needed to be re-established. Except that's pretty much a myth that only the most gullible of Marxists would buy.

For all intents and purposes, the Soviet Union was nothing more than the Russian Empire 2.0. The problem was, monarchs by divine right was no longer fashionable to the common man. So some Russian nationalists used Marxism as a ploy to keep the empire together under a rebranded name. It worked for about 60 years before the wheels began to come off and all the individual nations that had been dominated by Moscow over the centuries decided they wanted to go out on their own.