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[Shannon Hendrix]

On May 6, 2009, at 03:29 , gsm at mendelson.com wrote:

> On Wed, May 06, 2009 at 08:04:58AM +0100, Mike Meredith wrote:
>
>> 0: There are revolutionary anarchists who believe in revolution to  
>> get
>>  to the anarchist society. This is a rather specialised form of    
>> evolving an anarchist society from a failed state. And was
>>  particularly popular at the time of Tsarist Russia which
>>  interestingly enough is the form of society you get if you leave a
>>  failed state such as Somalia to stew for several centuries.
>
> I don't know where you got that. The major players in the first  
> Russian
> revolution were the "White Army", loyal to the Czar, the "Red Army",
> loyal to Lenin, and a third army, whose name I forgot which was  
> composed
> of everyone else.
>
> After the Czar was removed from power, and probably murdered, the  
> white army
> was disbanded, and a democracy was created, with a president in  
> charge.
>
> Lenin was not satisfied with a democracy, did not disband the red  
> army and
> within a year had a second revolution replacing the president with  
> himself
> and the democracy with a communist government.
>
> At no time was there anarchy in Russia.

I'm not sure at any time they were communist either.

Communism in Russia existed before the revolution in the villages,  
where it mostly worked, and afterward what they had was not the same,  
no matter what governments and historians call it.

Maybe you could call it what happens when communism tries to go big,  
but I have never thought of them as communist.

It seemed to be a socialist system run by an elite and violent  
aristocracy.

Whatever you call it, it was a monumental failure that makes a lot of  
other crappy governments look good by comparison.


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Shannon Hendrix
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