User blog comment:Percival E/Current events: what can the Left do, and what not?/@comment-114517-20100531154503

I love democracy but I now its flaws too. Dimi, I'm the eternal critic. And I know what an avatar is (you probably regard me as a noob in this area because of my premature abandonment of Facebook) What I don't know is where to upload the damn thing. @OWTB: the fact that the USSR was a one party state contributed to its downfall because ever since Breznjev dissidents worked their way up inside the party ranks. Once Gorbi rose to power he had all his reformists at his disposal.