It's not baseless speculation, and it's not a little bit of pressure. I'm saying it was a lot of pressure. And I'm saying we don't know what could have happened if the early Soviet Union was left alone to flourish or fail on its own merits.

I'm not sure if we can leave an experimental state to do its own thing, since it is really popular among commercial interests and aristocrats to meddle with establishment systems in order to procure more power, lather, rinse, repeat. All for freedom and for pleasure; nothing ever lasts forever

Regardless, it appears that we're just too tempted when creating our state constitutions to lend favor, at least, to the petite bourgeoisie, who take advantage of that power to secure more power until the state collapses into an autocratic regime or factions into warlord states.