(May 2, 2025 at 1:42 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Was Lenin's decision correct because it was correct, or was it correct because he read the moment and decided to act upon the discontent of the time? In other words, was he screwing the people, or were the people empowering him?
Puts another laughable cast upon who:whom, now doesn't it?
It was correct because he read the moment I would say. However I wouldn't say that people were empowering him - it was simply that masses weren't giving a shit and thus provisional government fell. There is this lovely tidbit in Victor Sebestyen Russian Revolution:
Quote:The Bolsheviks won because the Provisional Government under Kerensky was[V. Sebestyen, Russian Revolution,p.98-99]
even more incompetent and divided, and because they didn’t take the Bolsheviks
seriously until it was too late. But mainly it was because most of the people didn’t
care which side won.
The first revolt is against the supreme tyranny of theology, of the phantom of God. As long as we have a master in heaven, we will be slaves on earth.
Mikhail Bakunin.
Mikhail Bakunin.
