"To understand what was possible in Russia, it was necessary to descend from pure theory to the Russian reality.” Ian Angus illustrates how Marx and Engel's approach to the Russian question surprisingly reads as a response to certain critics from the twenty-first-century.

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Monthly Review | Marx and Engels and Russia’s Peasant Communes

In the past and in his own time, Marx has been portrayed as endorsing the enclosure of the commons as a necessary historical stage on the path to socialism. However, a more accurate account…

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