¿Era la Unión Soviética Socialista? Una crítica a los críticos de la URSS

Abstract

This paper offers a critique to those Marxist approaches which have challenged the socialist’s character of the Soviet Union. The paper starts by analysing what I view as a common departure misjudgement position shared by many critics: to look at Soviet socialism through the lenses of Marxist- Leninist classic authors and their ideal canons (Marx, Lenin, Trotsky etc.) In the second part this paper defends the socialist underpinnings of the Soviet Union; instead of framing the Soviet Union as a variation of the authentic socialism, the Soviet system managed to sustain itself for a long time as it abandoned certain ideas well routed in the Marxist-Leninist tradition.