11.09.09
The socialist idea (and its marxist/bolshevik destroyers)
Events of 1989 are often depicted as a failure of socialism. Though this powerful view has served to discredit alternatives to capitalism, it remains in doubt…
The fall of the Berlin Wall, and the Bolshevik system was the actually historial inevitability in action (take a deep breath on that one): the Leninist fiasco had to end before the idea of socialism could hope to resurrect, perhaps decades/centuries from now.
In fact, the ‘idea heist’ of Marx/Engels of the idea of ‘socialism’ so naively vigorous in the generation after the French Revolution proved destructive of the notion.
Marxism is incredibly overrated. The simple intelligence of the socialist idea just might one day resurface.