Socialism is strangely impervious to refutation by real-world
experience. Over the past hundred years, there have been more than
two dozen attempts to build a socialist society, from the Soviet
Union to Maoist China to Venezuela. All of them have ended in
varying degrees of failure. But, according to socialism's
adherents, that is only because none of these experiments were
"real socialism". This book documents the history of this, by now,
standard response. It shows how the claim of fake socialism is only
ever made after the event. As long as a socialist project is in its
prime, almost nobody claims that it is not real socialism. On the
contrary, virtually every socialist project in history has gone
through a honeymoon period, during which it was enthusiastically
praised by prominent Western intellectuals. It was only when their
failures became too obvious to deny that they got retroactively
reclassified as "not real socialism".
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