Contrary to the Libertarian position the soviet union did not fail for economic

Contrary to the Libertarian position the soviet union did not fail for economic reasons, it failed because of institutional problems and systemic corruption when a coup failed and dismantled the presumption of the persistence of power. The illusion was dispelled.

Had this illusion been maintained, yes, the soviet union would have remained a poor and backward civilization but that was the price for unifying so many primitive peoples and so much territory.

The undesirable nature of living life in such poverty, under such tyranny, by so many, particularly those of talents made flight attractive. But if we view it as a proletarian government trying to control natural elites, and seeking rents from them, I think that is the most concrete positioning. The soviets were an underclass movement, and they succeeded in walling in their talent, and neutralizing the economic differences between the talent groups in the most successful large scale redistribution from producer to the peasantry in history. However, this CAN WORK. The problem is that the cost of enforcing such a system produced and always will, externalities that are much more dangerous than redistributing only that which people are HAPPY to pay for the success of their KIN.

The north sea people are as inbred as appalachian hill folk. That’s why they favor redistribution – everyone is family, and looks and acts like it.