Perhaps. We'll never know now. We could have at least maintained the republic led primarily by the democratic socialist and narodnik parties the people actually wanted in power rather than the Bolshevik coup.United Marxist Nations wrote:Threlizdun wrote:Really? Which of our proposals actually led to the creation of communist societies? That would be the libertarian socialists. They've helped ensure there has never been a point in history where communism didn't exist. 1) Now which ideology resulted in the systematic destruction of communism in Spain, Ukraine, and Russia? that would be the Leninists.
No, I think it will take tremendous effort; I just don't think totalitarianism and genocide are necessary parts of that effort.
No, I've said that the bourgeoisie are also oppressed and alienated (something which Marx would definitely agree with if you ever got around to reading his work) and should be treated equally following the revolution. I do not believe your idea of mass death, continued antogonism, the oppression of one class by another, and the empowerment of the very body communism seeks to destroy is beneficial to the establishment of revolutionary society based on the concept that helping others ultimately leads to helping yourself. I do not think the capitalists will abandon their lifestyle easily. Violence absolutely will occur. There are few revolutions that occur without bloodshed. I am saying that we minimize violence and forsake it altogether once it ceases to be necessary.
1) If you think that communism should have been created immediately in Russia, then you're simply wrong; the Great powers would have destroyed any communist society. Revolution over the whole world needs to be achieved before progressing to communism.
What state? That would cease to exist following the revolution.2) There absolutely must be a use of authority in the revolution, if there is not, then we will simply be destroyed by the bourgeois and their state power.
They wouldn't have it removed; they would just have an equal role in it as everyone else. You have called for the disenfranchisement of the former capitalists before, and I believe you have also called for their extermination.3) I never said that the bourgeois cannot be treated equally, but must be integrated into the proletariat. The removal of their means of production would be oppressing them, though.