04-17-2021, 11:44 PM
(This post was last modified: 04-18-2021, 02:26 AM by Eric the Green.)
(04-17-2021, 02:16 PM)Einzige Wrote:(04-17-2021, 01:18 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(04-16-2021, 05:08 PM)Einzige Wrote: It's time for working-class revolution.
Ha ha. It was time in 1793, and 1848 too. And 1905 and 1917. And 1949 and 1959. Well, what did we end up with?
Six anti-feudal bourgeois revolutions, three with elements claiming Communism for themselves because the working class was more organized than previously.
But, in all six cases, it was "time for working-class revolution." In 1793 the working class took over the French Revolution, and even though not "communist," took many steps toward socialist redistribution of wealth and power, at the cost of a reign of terror. In 1848, Marx wrote that "a spectre is haunting Europe, the spectre of communism." So HE thought "It's time for working-class revolution." It wasn't much of one, it turned out. In 1905, the communist party had been organized in Russia, and was part of the movement, in which social revolutionaries were the dominant faction. In 1917, 1949 and 1959, there were notable communist revolutions, which turned out to mainly be tyrannies. Eventually, some of the people benefited modestly at least materially from these revolutions.