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Why did Karl Marx and Marxism have such an influence on Soviet Russia and not other countries?
Why was Russia the only country to submit to Marxism? Obviously other countries were communist, but for different reasons. I want to know why it had such a huge affect on Russia?
asked by Morgan BH 2 months ago
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LiamAnderson says
IMHO
The ruling aristocracy was weak, the peasants were angry and desperate and the revolutionaries were well organized and got help from outside.
The same thing happened in China, as I recall.
It didn't happen in the UK because the ruling aristocracy wer a lot stronger, they made sure that the revolutionaries didn't get organized and the peasants (ordinary people) were not angry and desperate enough to risk what they had got in a revolution.
If you check out my hub about Mortgages and the Middle Ages, you can see more of where I am coming from.
dabeaner says
Marxism IS communism IS socialism. Those are arbitrary terms coined by their willing dupes (useful idiots) and power-hungry manipulators to make the same basic ideology acceptable by minor differences in different countries.
Why the Russians accepted it is no different than why those in the U.S. are accepting the corporate-socialist-fascist mix of the Demopublican party. Simply, most people are stupid sheep.
If you want know more, read "Atlas Shrugged" (a novel) by Ayn Rand.
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