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Honestly, I agree. I feel like this is the big problem when we talk about the USSR. It's not the time in the darkness that really defines them, but their time in the light. And let's just say their time in the light has served to call a spade a spade. So it's not for us to say whether the house of cards is more than the sum of its parts because the proof is in the pudding.
When I think of Marx and his teachings, they influenced the USSR. Not in the way you'd expect because it came down to do or die and they came out of the water with less light and more darkness from my point of view. If you took away Marx it might still be the USSR, but you'd also have to consider an entirely different denominator for the situation and I honestly feel like you folks aren't ready for that sort of dialogue.