Did communism fail in the Soviet Union & Warsaw Pact nations because of the failure of their systems, or because of the greed, lies & ambition of western elites & their willing proxies within those nations?
I am of the opinion that it was only a sizeable minority within these countries who brought down the greatest humanitarian experiment our world has ever seen, in combination with the cynical and utterly callous elites of the western world.
It was NOT the internal contradictions and failures of these states that brought their downfall, it was not their arguably excessive repression of internal dissent or the actions of a heavy-handed dictatorship. I believe the primary factor was the same greed-driven, inherently selfish ambitions of the disaffected few conjoined with inexorable pressure from outside that we see and have seen time and time again as western elites seek to destabilize systems not under their direct control. We have seen their machinations time and time again across the world. We have seen it anywhere western elites have targeted nations for regime change. We have seen it in Hong Kong, we saw it in Ukraine, it has been seen in Iran and Venezuela... and we see it currently in Belarus.
The CIA among many others across the panoply of western state institutions along with western NGOs are tasked with the goal of bringing down societies, leaderships and institutions which threaten the dominance of western capitalism and its elite puppet-masters.
We were all told to believe that communism had failed due to its internals flaws and contradictions. But was this truly the case?
The goal of communism is to provide all citizens of communist/socialist states with the strong and stable foundation that will ensure they have a reliable base on which to live decent lives. This is inevitably a long term goal. To enable only a proportion of citizens the best of everything and leave the majority to slave, suffer and live in relative poverty by comparison with them is a much shorter process.
The misfortune for those idealists who believed in the communist/socialist solution for general well being, happiness, security, dignity and a decent life for all was that the new technologies of the modern world we now live in overtook them and created the means for a greed-driven and/or selfishly ambitious minority to overwhelm the normal means of ensuring stability.
Many near the periphery of communist/socialist states had access to western television channels. It was difficult to argue that all they saw would one day also come to the people who watched them, that they must be patient for the goal was to provide for everyone, not just for the few. This argument, if it was made, failed to impress a sizeable percentage of these populations with the result we all know all too well.
Gorbachev had wished to open up the communist/socialist system not destroy it. His innovative approach had sense behind it and might have borne fruit in an earlier time. But the germ of greed and the seeds of desire proved too powerful and his efforts only opened the door for the systems he held so dear. This is why Vladimir Putin bemoaned the end of the communist/socialist dream, not because he thought it was perfect but because he knew the tremendous potential that was within it and the incredible levels of human good that it personified in so many ways, a unity of selfless spirit with its attendant selfless goal. All dashed on the rocks of greed, lies and ambition.
Do not hide away from the fact that this is what the western elites had wanted, nor to, to the fact that their goals had precisely NOTHING to do with bringing freedom or democracy. The Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact nations were merely competition.
All the seemingly benign statements about releasing the oppressed citizens of these countries so they could enjoy the great systems of capitalism were, as usual, all deeply cynical lies. These people and these nations would simply be slave workers and consumers for the West, their resources plundered and their airwaves and other propaganda sources simply filled with their own form of dictatorship, liberal totalitarianism.
The elites who proclaimed themselves saviors of people who formerly lived within communist/socialist nations lied incessantly using the most believable rhetoric their speech-writers could devise. In truth they didn’t give a fuck about those people, just as they don’t give a fuck about the people of Belarus, Syria, Iran, Ukraine, Venezuela, Cuba, China or Russia. Nothing any western politician says should EVER be taken at face value. What they should never be confused with what they really think or their actual goals. NEVER.
The most idealistic and human-oriented system this world has ever known and potentially will ever know was destroyed from within and without for purely self-interested reasons.
Left to endure their growing pains on the way to the ideal society envisioned by its founders communism/socialism would have evolved and grown to the point where the living standard of its citizens would have matched those in the West though without the various degraded lifestyles, chronic divisions, arrant wastefulness, gross inequity and vile depravities within it that have been seen ever more nakedly in these recent decades.
The human species at its best would share this world and all its incredible beauty and fascinating diversity. Only a depraved mindset would wish to hoard all this just for the benefit of the fortunate few who through good luck, privilege, inheritance or aggression found a way to the top of the pile.
Communism/socialism sprang from the deepest and best of the selfless human instinct. Capitalism at its most venal springs from a totally selfish and self-interested emotion that cares nothing for its effect on others.
It is almost too late to transition to the kind of future the founders of communism/socialism envisioned. However, we can and must nurture those societies which retain their communist/socialist roots for they are the potential growth points for a world and civilization on this planet that we can be truly proud of.
If we don’t protect and nourish those societies will inevitably become a fascistic, dog-eat-dog runt of a bastardized world where greed, lies and ambition rule all.
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