The narrator of this splendid account of the April Theses did a fabulous job.

I congratulate you comrade Alan Wood at the bottom of my heart. The talk about April theses was wonderfully articulated and accurate!

I mistakenly had this at 1.25x speed and wondered why he was talking so fast haha

@fenceyhen4249

2 жыл бұрын

1.25x with Alan Woods is normal talking speed lol

The description says that Alan is the editor, not author of Bolshevism

Very good summation on this part of the 1917 revolution. Also enlightening thoughts on the challenges facing a revolutionary "leadership". Concerning Stalin, I've never bought the statement that he would have been some mediocre figure! I don't think a mediocre person could have taken control of the USSR! I have no love for Stalin but I imagine he was a hard working organiser. Good talk!

@fenceyhen4249

2 жыл бұрын

Imo it makes more sense to think about it as he was selected by the developing bureaucracy specifically because he was so mediocre and undeveloped as a revolutionary. During the upswing, he had nothing to offer and no independent theory, but during the counter-revolution that mediocrity as a revolutionary made him the ideal leader

@andrewzhou4228

Жыл бұрын

@@fenceyhen4249 Trotsky's theory is anti-Lenin. Trotsky sold out USSR spies in USA, abusing his knowledge of socialist comrades and his authority of the revolution to meet the USA socialists. Stalin and the USSR carried out world revolution during the cold war. Trotsky couldn't do shit. He failed his world revolution BS in Poland, failed his assassination plot against Lenin, Stalin and the true old Bolsheviks, he and the other Mensheviks opportunists were ratted out and destroyed. Every Trotskyist I know repeats Khrushchev revisionist talking points. Extending their hatred for Stalin, into the hatred for all socialist experiences outside the Imperialist bloc. I have yet met a single Trotskyist that does not repeat NATO propaganda about the global South.

Nice

The featured artistic drawing that appears before the video begins is an Stalinist falsification. Stalin was never on that train!

@IsmailofeRegime

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While there were indeed paintings that falsely portrayed Stalin as Lenin's "comrade-in-arms" during 1917, I don't think the man behind Lenin is meant to be him. Stalin-era Soviet historical texts, for all their efforts to exaggerate Stalin's role, make no claim that he was on the train.