Hunor_Deak t1_j2b2usv wrote on December 30, 2022 at 11:04 PM

Reply to comment by ThatGuy798 in This day, 100 years ago, the USSR was created by SENPA-A-A-A-I-I

It partially boils down to Hobbes's idea of the social contract.

Communism had a social contract with the population. You surrender individual sovereignty and we deliver improvement in material conditions to a point where we reach Utopia as described by Marx and Engels.

Once the cynicism sets in and the inevitability of utopia through Marxism gets replaced with Brezhnev's eternity of the same (the stagnation of the 1970s), the social contract fails.

That is why Communism was gone by 1989 and 1991. It failed to uphold its own end of the social contract while the population gave up everything.

I heard this comment before. Majority of the people believed till Chernobyl. Not after.

Hunor_Deak t1_j2b1ryp wrote on December 30, 2022 at 10:57 PM

Reply to comment by MaievSekashi in This day, 100 years ago, the USSR was created by SENPA-A-A-A-I-I

And to add, the Russo-Japanese war of 1904-05.

He was told that going to war against Japan was a bad idea as Russia wasn't ready. He couldn't deliver economic progress so he wanted to be a military leader. The war was serving as a distraction to the problems in Russia. Only for them to lose the war.

The failed revolution of 1905 was partially because of Russian loss to Japan.