[lbo-talk] more noxious crap

[Marv Gandall]

Russia was a capitalist society, including in the countryside where 
capitalist social relations had supplanted serfdom well before the Russian 
Revolution. I expect you'd be loath to turn to Lenin's Development of 
Capitalism in Russia or to Trotsky's theory of combined and uneven 
development for confirmation, but, AFAIK, this issue never really been in 
dispute in the mainstream academic literature either. For that matter, it 
wasn't in dispute within the ruling class; key Tsarist officials like 
Stolypin and Witte well understood they were advancing capitalist 
development, not trying to protect residual feudal privileges and practices.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Doss" <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Saturday, October 03, 2009 4:18 PM
Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] more noxious crap


> The Whites were not really representatives of the capitalist class. They 
> were more representatives of feudalism. By and large -- there was a lot of 
> variation within the Whites. Ataman Dudov was fighting for an independent 
> "republic of Cossacks, Mountain Peoples*, and Free People of the 
> Steppes**."
>
> *That is, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis, Adyghs and other Caucasian 
> peoples.
>
> **That is, Kalmyks. Incidentally this is kind of interesting. The Kalmyks, 
> Europe's only Buddhist people, sided with the Whites. I can't remember his 
> name, but one Kalmyk ataman at the time fled Russia and then later 
> returned to found the Society for the Assistance of the Buddhists of 
> Russia. The Bolsheviks executed him though.
>
> --- On Sat, 10/3/09, Marv Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
>>
>> The Bolshevik Red Guards seized power relatively peacefully
>> in the ten days
>> that shook the world, but that was a prelude to the vicious
>> civil war which
>> followed the reorganization of the white forces outside
>> Petrograd and Moscow
>> and foreign military intervention.
>>
>
>
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