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> So, the death of socialism was in 1917 when the autonomy
>of the local soviets was taken away and worker's control wiped out. Wage
>labor never disappeared, which 19th century socialism always stressed. So
how
>can you call it socialism? The only way you can is if you've bought into
>Western and Soviet propaganda. Oh well, its not the only one of life's sad
>stories.....
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>Damon Mac Fodge
What gibbering nonsense. To reduce the complexity of the Russian revolution
to a paragraph is typical of the blather that goes on in newsgroups. At
least Damon could conform to usenet style and use a decent tag like "David
O'Bedlam", who is the house anarchist on alt.politics.socialism.trotsky.
I am not even going to try to correct all of his factual errors, but would
direct folks to messages of the last 3 months on apst, which have covered
the Russian revolution in depth. If you want to understand this event, by
the way, there is no better unbiased source than W. C. Chamberlain's 2
volume history "Russian Revolution 1917-1918", Princeton.
>> Sorry I don't feel like wasting my time writing you an essay about the Russian Revolution so I can only give you a paragraph. I have argued with Socialists for hours who just keep spouting off the same apologist nonsense. I'll never forget the time this Socialist gave me this article about the Bolshevik coup called, "When Dreams Come True". It was like out of the Ministry of Truth or something! Socialists are just bitter because the whole thing came crashing down in 1991, and haven't realized it yet.
Damon Mac Fodge
ps. so I'm an anarchist, kill me.