Soviet survival (was Re: [Marxism] Challenge to Lenin &

["Nestor Gorojovsky" <nestorgoro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:21:49 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Alan Bradley <alanb1000@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Marxism] Challenge to Lenin & Trotsky experts
> To: marxism@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Alan says:

> 
> Lenin and Trotsky's great role was to ensure that the
> Russian Revolution didn't go the same way as the Paris
> Commune. The steps they took were, to a large extent,
> the steps the Commune should have taken, and didn't.

Yes, I think that this is _exactly_ what they had in their minds.  It
is well known that the People's Commissars were thus named after the
Commissars of the French Revolution.  And perhaps this is what makes
Deutscher's job on the issues so powerful:  he was always thinking in
terms of French Revolution / Russian Revolution.

> 
> The great tragedy was that the Soviets themselves
> effectively failed to survive the Civil War.

This poses a serious problem.  Which is the issue of whether the
working class(es), such as history is bringing them to life, can
overcome their limited cultural background and take in their own 
hands the revolutions that others (essentially, petty bourgeois 
radicals) make for them.  

Most of 20th Century revolutions, in the end, were _made and led_ by
petty bourgeois politicians.  If we include "right wing" (that is,
European or Japanese Fascist movements) in the general definition of
"revolutions", then we see that the difference between left wing
revolutions (those intended to take the working class to power) and
right wing revolutions (those intended to "restore the State") is 
that while the working class could not, did not want, was unable to, 
or found it too suicidal to take the power that the petty bourgeois
radicals offered her, the bourgeoisie did not tremble at the very 
same move.

I am not equating Fascism with socialism, don't take me wrong.  I am 
an heretic, and I am not "politically correct".  However, I am still 
sane.

What I am trying to do is to spark some debate on an issue that I 
consider one of the starting points of a future or impending wave of 
working class revolutions:  how can the class take over the task from 
those who have worked for her, in the very way the European 
bourgeoisie did in England or France at its heyday, and in Italy, 
Japan or Germany under the imperialist regime?


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Néstor Miguel Gorojovsky
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"La patria tiene que ser la dignidad arriba y el regocijo abajo".
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