Two thumbs way down

annnd they didnt pick such a great school..
and the scene with the girl sitting under the tree….
wellll

i hope she know’s she’s sitting in DOODOO BARRIES!

From what basis are your unfounded allegations charged from? Firstly, if you look at election results from right before the Russian Revolution you would find that parties promoting revolution had the large majority of the vote- the Bolsheviks included.

Secondly, socialism was not to blame for the civil war- you can blame capitalism for that, which led a white army composed of British, American, French, Czechoslovakian and Polish troops. This imperialist caused civil war was coupled by a blockade, so I ask- were the famines experienced really at the fault of the Bolsheviks- or can blame be laid on those who really starved Russia?

Thirdly, I agree with you on one small point- the economy of Russia was very much the fault of the planned economy- as such “destroyed” seems an odd choice of words. Before the Russian Revolution the country was practicing feudalism largely- yet the planned economy still yielded a world super power by the end of the second world war. It was actually capitalism that destroyed Russia’s economy- during the Great Depression the economy of the US fell by a quarter. When capitalism was reintroduced into the USSR, the economy fell by half.

Marxists do not stand for the elimination of “undesired races” in fact if you look once more at the example of Russia post-1917, many independent states- territories of the old state- were given the choice to not join the USSR if they so desired. In addition women were given the right to vote in 1918- two years prior to the US. Other rights that were gained out of the Russian Revolution include, divorce from either partner, abortion, gay sex, freedom of worship, and self-determination. Unfortunately many of these gains would be lost under the bureaucracy that rose up from the massive poverty that existed after the destruction the White Army havocked.

Hitler was no Marxist, in fact the rise of fascism in Germany led to bloody crushings of the workers movements in that country, as well as in every country that fascism took hold.

Marxists hold no utopian vision, only the task of proceeding with the logical conclusions that exist from simply viewing the world in class terms- terms that cannot be wished away or ignored. Neither does a revolution mean violence, the Russian Revolution was largely bloodless- the blood didnt really flow until the foreign capitalist White Army showed up. I think Brett is under the illusion that Communism necessarily means bureaucracy- this is not the case at all, any true Marxist promotes the overthrow of these regimes with true worker’s democracy- democratic socialism.

Marxists also sought to eliminate undesired classes and races in what Frederic Engles called a revolutionary holocaust; 10%-25% of the people were killed after every Communist uprising in preparation of rearranging society and creating the new man. Hitler was a Marxist who also had a utopian vision but just interpreted the works of Marx and Lenin in a different way.

Fascism is characterized by nationalism, militarism, and authoritarianism and is actually anti-communist.