Re: [Marxism] "Russia on the road again" (Juventud RebeldeinterviewsRussian ambassador to Cuba)

[Gaius Germanicus <caligula@xxxxxxxx>]

On Jul 14, 2008, at 9:39 AM, Néstor Gorojovsky wrote:

>>> More interesting, indeed, than still another Requiem for the First
>>> Great Experiment in the Struggle of Humankind from Barbarity to
>>> Socialism. Because it is not this kind of contributions that will  
>>> help
>>> us ahead.
>>
>> An ode to the capitalist Russian Federation isn't much use either,  
>> IMHO.
>
> Certainly not. But this is the core, European, point of view. In the
> end, and sorry if I sound too hard, we are still paying for the
> failure of Western European workers to arise when the Russian
> Revolution summoned them to do so. From that point of view, the
> writing on the wall spells "Do your own revolutions if you want
> socialism in Russia".

That the vast bulk of the able bodied Western European workers were  
busy killing each other, fighting over and in pre-dug graves strung  
with barbed wire, and were in general less concerned with politics  
than staying alive from day to day MIGHT have had something to do with  
it.  Add to that the lack of an organizing force among the upper  
classes who usually lead such efforts (literacy being useful), and  
there was NO chance that West would follow East in this case.

Besides, the Marxist Leninist doctrine of the Bolsheviks simply wasn't  
as attractive to your typical population in the West as it was to that  
in the East.  Frankly, as is the typical Soviet communist model, the  
Russian Revolution was really was a subversion of a popular revolution  
against the Czar rather than a true socialist revolution.  And, as is  
usually the case, those NOT part of the Bolshevik wing of that  
revolution were among its first victims rather than the people against  
whom they were supposedly in revolution against.

-G.G.AVG


"Men speak of natural rights, but I challenge any one to show where in  
nature any rights existed or were recognized until there was  
established for their declaration and protection a duly promulgated  
body of corresponding laws." Calvin Coolidge




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