re: "Classic" revolutions

[Doug Henwood <dhenwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Louis N Proyect wrote:

>This is the central feature of 20th century revolutions: They tend to
>occur in peasant nations and they are caused by the miseries of
>colonialism and neocolonialism. Once the comprador bourgeoisie is
>overthrown and the imperialist bourgeosie is beaten back, the Communist
>Party embarks on an development path that stresses industrialization as
>rapidly as possible. This has led some Sovietologists to conclude that the
>CP is a bourgeoisie.

Of course, we haven't had one of these revolutions since the Nicaraguan one
almost 20 years ago, and even that didn't follow this model. With
neoliberalism deepening many neo-neocolonial miseries, what happened to
revolution?

Doug