[lbo-talk] What are we waiting for?

[Chris Doss]

Well, peace, land and bread may have been desired by lots of people in Russia, but as far as I know it was not actually a slogan before the Bolsheviks (not "Lenin and Trotsky," dammit) made it into one. I mean, how could it be -- "land" is a demand of the lower peasantry (there is an interesting pre-1917 history behind this), not the masses. (They never actually got the land by the way.)

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Shane wrote

"But! "Peace, land, and bread" was not Lenin's--it was the Russian masses'. The genius of Lenin and Trotsky was their ability to hear the masses and speak to them in their own language."

Granted. These were the pre-mass media masses, so perhaps, easier to comprehend.

Nevertheless, I'm willing to be that

"Peace, health, education, and justice" will not fall on deaf ears.

J.

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