Tyrannies ruling in the name of socialism
explains why some countries that call themselves socialist are nothing of the sort, as part of his series on the ISO's "Where We Stand" statement.
December 6, 2013 | Issue 679
IT WOULD be wrong to argue that the collapse of the Soviet Union has rendered irrelevant questions about what sort of system it was.
Though the pall of "Soviet socialism"--with its bureaucratic police methods--no longer hangs over the socialist movement, we still must answer the questions: What was the nature of the Soviet Union? Was it socialist in fact or in name only? Was it an inevitable outcome of what the Russian revolutionaries set out to do in 1917?
