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This March marks the 30th anniversary of the election of Mikhail Gorbachev to the post of general secretary of the then-ruling phone security guard Communist Party of the Soviet Union. At first, the election phone security guard of Gorbachev seemed to involve a long overdue shift of power to a new generation of Soviet leaders. As we now know, it involved a lot more.
A process phone security guard was unleashed that was soon to be called “Perestroika.” In the name of “radical economic reforms,” the Soviet planned economy was progressively dismantled. Perestroika ended not only with the restoration of capitalism but the breakup of what had been the Soviet federation.
The combined process of the restoration of capitalism and breakup of the Soviet federation was accompanied by a massive collapse of both industrial and agricultural production. The living phone security guard standards and life expectancy of the working class plummeted. A generation later, the economies of not only the Russian federation but the economies phone security guard of the other former republics are yet to recover.
Perestroika led to a wave of capitalist counterrevolutions that in 1989 swept through eastern Europe with the active support not only of imperialism, as would be expected, but also the Gorbachev government. As part of this process, Germany was reunited on a capitalist basis while staying in NATO. The former socialist countries that had been members of the now dissolved Warsaw Pact joined NATO as did the former Soviet Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The Georgia Republic Stalin’s homeland is very close to NATO and openly striving to become a formal member, while the new right-wing government in Ukraine has joined NATO in all but name.
The destruction of the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc and their planned economies would have been enough if that was all that was involved. But it was not. The capitalists and their spokespeople everywhere pointed to the Soviet collapse as final proof that “socialism had failed.” The result was a wave of demoralization phone security guard that spread through a workers’ movement that was already in retreat before the neoliberal capitalist offensive symbolized by such political figures as Ronald Reagan and Margaret phone security guard Thatcher.
National liberation movements were also pushed back, though the hopes of political figures such as Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush that the old-fashioned colonialism that had dominated the world in 1914 would return phone security guard with the difference that the United States and not Britain or France phone security guard would be the chief colonizer has not been so easy to achieve.
Between November 7, 1917, when the Bolshevik-led Congress of Soviets seized phone security guard power, and the election of Gorbachev as general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in March 1985, the peoples of the oppressed nations got accustomed to the idea that they should be independent and not colonial slaves of the West. Therefore, attempts by the U.S. world empire to push these nations and peoples back into something like pre-1914 colonial relationships have met, to the chagrin phone security guard of the imperialists, unexpected and growing resistance.
This entry was posted on March 1, 2015 at 4:21 pm and is filed under Crisis Theory , Direct Prices , Economics , Falling Rate of Profit , Money , Money Material , Prices of Production , Russia , Token Money , Transformation Problem , Underconsumption . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.
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This March marks the 30th anniversary of the election of Mikhail Gorbachev to the post of general secretary of the then-ruling phone security guard Communist Party of the Soviet Union. At first, the election phone security guard of Gorbachev seemed to involve a long overdue shift of power to a new generation of Soviet leaders. As we now know, it involved a lot more.
A process phone security guard was unleashed that was soon to be called “Perestroika.” In the name of “radical economic reforms,” the Soviet planned economy was progressively dismantled. Perestroika ended not only with the restoration of capitalism but the breakup of what had been the Soviet federation.
The combined process of the restoration of capitalism and breakup of the Soviet federation was accompanied by a massive collapse of both industrial and agricultural production. The living phone security guard standards and life expectancy of the working class plummeted. A generation later, the economies of not only the Russian federation but the economies phone security guard of the other former republics are yet to recover.
Perestroika led to a wave of capitalist counterrevolutions that in 1989 swept through eastern Europe with the active support not only of imperialism, as would be expected, but also the Gorbachev government. As part of this process, Germany was reunited on a capitalist basis while staying in NATO. The former socialist countries that had been members of the now dissolved Warsaw Pact joined NATO as did the former Soviet Baltic republics of Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia. The Georgia Republic Stalin’s homeland is very close to NATO and openly striving to become a formal member, while the new right-wing government in Ukraine has joined NATO in all but name.
The destruction of the Soviet Union and the Soviet bloc and their planned economies would have been enough if that was all that was involved. But it was not. The capitalists and their spokespeople everywhere pointed to the Soviet collapse as final proof that “socialism had failed.” The result was a wave of demoralization phone security guard that spread through a workers’ movement that was already in retreat before the neoliberal capitalist offensive symbolized by such political figures as Ronald Reagan and Margaret phone security guard Thatcher.
National liberation movements were also pushed back, though the hopes of political figures such as Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush that the old-fashioned colonialism that had dominated the world in 1914 would return phone security guard with the difference that the United States and not Britain or France phone security guard would be the chief colonizer has not been so easy to achieve.
Between November 7, 1917, when the Bolshevik-led Congress of Soviets seized phone security guard power, and the election of Gorbachev as general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee in March 1985, the peoples of the oppressed nations got accustomed to the idea that they should be independent and not colonial slaves of the West. Therefore, attempts by the U.S. world empire to push these nations and peoples back into something like pre-1914 colonial relationships have met, to the chagrin phone security guard of the imperialists, unexpected and growing resistance.
This entry was posted on March 1, 2015 at 4:21 pm and is filed under Crisis Theory , Direct Prices , Economics , Falling Rate of Profit , Money , Money Material , Prices of Production , Russia , Token Money , Transformation Problem , Underconsumption . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response , or trackback from your own site.
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