Orthodox socialism and “images of the future”
Modern critics of socialism sometimes resemble neurotics who have had a “childhood trauma” in their childhood, which they do not even remember (but of which they were informed by “benigners” like Solzhenitsyn) and to which they explain all their failures, which both happened and mostly did not happen (the phenomenon of so-called “lost profit”). But if there were no revolution - we would be 500 million, as Mendeleev said, but if there were no revolution - Russia would be a benign idyll as in Ivan Shmelev's “Summer of the Lord”, but if there were no revolution - Russia would get Constantinople, the straits and become a world power equal to Britain. The list of what would have happened “if there had been no revolution” is really inexhaustible....
