Foreign Affairs

and crushed any hope the Russian people had by making it a dictatorship of the Party instead of a dictatorship of the workers. The inner circle of the party just took over where the aristocracy had left off, with Lenin as the new Czar. Russia's take on Marrxism was authoritarian, which was not what Marx was hoping for. The only good thing about it was that the new aristocrats couldn't own much of anything directly which cut down on the greed and thee grabbing and allowed a lot of building to go on. It wasn't the right kind of building--not enough housing, ever--but they did build.

I wouldn't be surprised to see them go back to this system, Putin and his variety of capitalism has only brought out the greed and the grabbers while the country started to fall apart, and that's even without the war.

So don't be surprised to see a new embrace of pseudo Marxism. It was a bad deal, but it was probably the best deal they had, barring the misrule of Stalin.