Rusozak wrote:Punished UMN wrote:In that case, the evidence is pretty abundant that the KPSS remained quite committed to the goal of establishing communism, and many of the things which critics say are indicative of it abandoning this goal are perhaps better explained by cognitive biases.
Did they though? Especially in the last few years, with economic reforms that allowed more private ownership and let western corporate entities establish a presence. Had the USSR not collapsed, I imagine it would have continued down this route and ended up more like modern China.
The KPSS was obviously not a monolith but I meant more generally in relation to the era prior to the dissolution period.