RE: Noam Chomsky on Lenin
March 5, 2017 at 11:02 am
(This post was last modified: March 5, 2017 at 11:15 am by Anomalocaris.)
(March 4, 2017 at 4:49 am)Mr Greene Wrote: Given the way any opposition was silenced he was certainly a dictator out to grab power at any cost.
What is truly appalling is the way the 'revolutionaries' helped themselves to the Romanov's possessions after their executions. Nothing but thieves and murderers.
Which violent revolution did not see revolutionaries enriching themselves through plunder in preference to enriching those in whose name the revolution was fermented?
(March 4, 2017 at 9:17 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:(March 3, 2017 at 9:05 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: Define right wing.
The political terms left and right wing comes from the early days of the French republic and was down to the seating arrangements in the debating chamber with the people who supported the continued stratification of society sat on the right and the people who were for a more equal society on the left. The further to the extremes you sat the more extreme your view on those issues was supposed to be.
So
left wing, a more equal society with social mobility and sharing of economic wealth.
Right wing, no social mobility and wealth stays concentrated in a few.
In a nutshell.
Then the communist revolution in Russia was decidedly not a right wing revolution. Whatever the excesses of the revolution and the immediate civil war that followed, the communists did bring in a system that was perhaps equal in terror, but vastly more socially mobile, economically egalitarian and dynamic compared to the pre-existing Romanov autocracy.
