Would France and Germany start their own separate block away from the USSR, or would they all become allies? Also how would society work in the Western reds, would they be totalitarian, or something else. One of the most common things I here is that Karl Marx intended for socialism to take root in industrialized countries like France and Germany, not places like Russia and China, which were for the most part still feudal.With both France and the USSR going red, I would expect Germany to follow pretty quickly.
Would France and Germany start their own separate block away from the USSR, or would they all become allies? Also how would society work in the Western reds, would they be totalitarian, or something else. One of the most common things I here is that Karl Marx intended for socialism to take root in industrialized countries like France and Germany, not places like Russia and China, which were for the most part still feudal.
Just a note that France had a communist government after WWII and the Mitterand government was extremely left leaning with mass nationalisation.
Even now, some bits of the socialist party have trouble accepting market economy
So, if France were to go socialist after World war one, how would it compare to the USSR? What would be it's relations with the USSR? Would France be able to spread socialism to other European countries ? How would other neighboring nations react to a socialist France?
Quite. Socialist=/=Communist.France had a socialist government post WW1, Communist is probably the better term to use.
If the Socialists had formed government earlier, in the immediate aftermath of World War One, they would have been out of government six months later, because that was what the Third Republic was like; governments that consisted of never-ending evolving doors.
Quite. Socialist=/=Communist.
WRONG!!!France never had socialist governments, only social-democratic ones. The French Socialist Party actually is a social democratic Party.
WRONG!!!
Social democratic = socialist
???And how to you call the socialists countries of Europe then? You can't call them communist, because communism is a state if society without state the communist parties wanted to achieve, and now you can't call them socialist either, since you said that socialism is social democracy.
Trying to tell e.g. the current President of France that he's not 'socialist' because you want to define the term in your own way is very unhelpful.
I should, I admit, have used 'is' not '='. Communist is contained within socialism, but so, equally, is social democracy, and various other movements (like the Anarcho-Syndicalists).
You can't run a society without a state. Communist parties may have claimed they didn't want one, but even the Anarchist socialists of Catalunya found out they needed some sort of governmental apparatus.
Could an anarchist society successfully live without a state? Obviously they just changed the definiton of state to argue that they abolished the state.
It wasn't a particularly democratic system
Why exactly?
And what were the functions of this pseudo state?