To anyone that calls themselves a communist or socialist: Did the Soviet Union prove anything?
compare EU and USSR.
both are socialistic, but who succeed ?
and thats a point: implementation is matter, ideas don't.
They weren't socialist.
they are. from years before Marx born to present days.
UK for example, still called "most socialistic country after Soviet Union", probably forgeting China or they really more, nvm.
note: European "revolutions" happen AGES before Russian one.
Sorry for not making this clear-- the USSR wasn't socialist.