http://dagblog.com/link/100-years-lenin-vs-deplorables-nytimes-22243 Comments for "100 Years On: Lenin vs the Deplorables (NYTimes)" en http://dagblog.com/comment/236099#comment-236099 <a id="comment-236099"></a> <p><em>In reply to <a href="http://dagblog.com/link/100-years-lenin-vs-deplorables-nytimes-22243">100 Years On: Lenin vs the Deplorables (NYTimes)</a></em></p> <div class="field field-name-comment-body field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Tariq Ali! Always like to read a socialist who does nuance.</p> <p>Also good to be reminded that no matter how bad things seem these days, they used to be worse:</p> <p>....<em>with the ensuing civil war, in which the nascent Soviet state’s enemies were backed by the czar’s former Western allies.</em> <em>Amid the resulting chaos and<strong> </strong><u>millions of casualties, the Bolsheviks finally prevailed — but at a terrible political and moral cost, including the virtual extinction of the working class that had originally made the revolution</u></em><u>. </u></p> <p>P.S. <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2015/s4473089.htm">Ali supported Breixit!</a></p> </div></div></div> Wed, 05 Apr 2017 00:41:18 +0000 artappraiser comment 236099 at http://dagblog.com