How the US Hasn't Been the Same Since the SU Passed Away

摘要

We read David Laibman's review of Marcel van der Linden's Western Marxism and the Soviet Union with intense interest, and would like to respond to it with reflections on how the collapse of the Soviet Union has impacted social conditions and the cultural climate. We concur with Laibman's position that the Soviet Union was a socialist country and that its presence had positive consequences for the working class and the left in the capitalist world.