Editing Ontology:Q65,47 (section)

== Usage notes ==

This claim is not very controversial. It is more or less the standard view of the Cold War in North America, and likely to be stated or implied in a typical history book.

=== Color swatch ===

This Item was assigned the <code>HAS</code> philosophy tag (blue) in reference to standard Liberal-republican history.

The Marxist variant of the proposition (<code>ML</code> / crimson) is the same except that it explicitly references the Soviet Union being aligned with an ideology <em>of the proletariat</em>. The core of the proposition is still that the 14 union republics of the Soviet Union were all aligned around a particular political ideology.

=== Falsification criteria ===

To falsify this claim, it would have to be shown that the Soviet Union primarily behaved according to a different model than the model of people joining around a political ideology of building a particular kind of republic or of people joining together around particular class features and class-structures to generate ideology incidentally, instead operating according to some comparatively non-political model such as being the Soviet Union solely on the basis of the 14 union republics being part of a greater whole <em>primarily because</em> because they feel like they are already joined by the same culture and are part of the same ethnic group. Note that statements by Communist parties that the 14 union republics "will one day become" the same continuous countable culture do not count as them already being the same culture; these statements directly imply that the merging of cultures has not yet happened.

The ability to successfully show that Marxism was largely incidental to uniting the 14 union republics into a greater country or that some other ideology would have been just as effective at both liberating and uniting the 14 nationalities and defeating the Russian Empire would be a win for anarchism, related [[:Category:Existentialist-Structuralist tradition ontology|Existentialist-Structuralist]] philosophies, and postcolonial theories against Marxism, as well as opening the gates to potential arguments that the opposition of Liberal-republican countries against the Soviet Union was [[E:the spoon is solid until you know it's simulated|a social construct that can be deconstructed]].


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