100 Years On: Lenin vs the Deplorables (NYTimes)

By PeraclesPlease on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 5:41am |

Cue up Dostoevsky's The Possessed, Russia's inner Demon.

URL:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/03/opinion/what-was-lenin-thinking.html?smid=fb-share&_r=0

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Tariq Ali! Always like to read a socialist who does nuance.

Also good to be reminded that no matter how bad things seem these days, they used to be worse:

....with the ensuing civil war, in which the nascent Soviet state’s enemies were backed by the czar’s former Western allies. Amid the resulting chaos and 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prevailed — but at a terrible political and moral cost, including the virtual extinction of the working class that had originally made the revolution.

P.S. Ali supported Breixit!

by artappraiser on Tue, 04/04/2017 - 8:41pm