Journal of Other Forum Analysis

[benji]

Here's the post B-Dubs ran from:

This shouldn't be a thread about this but I'm so sorry you understand history like a Civilization playthrough. Russia was so much an imperialist power by 1917, keen on invading its neighbours, that it had already done so -- disrupting Metternich in the process -- that that was the reason why the country was undergoing unrest and mass mobilization concentrated in Moscow.

Not to mention Lenin wasn't simply some guy, there was a party behind him and that is the whole point. The peasantry-industrial proletariat that made up the soviets existed before him (and were largely the reason why the Red Army won). The Provisional Government wanted to keep the war going, so there's no model perfect parliamentary democratic yet socialist government to be seen here. You hate a mirage of Lenin.

This is all to say that the Bolsheviks acted on the material conditions of the time. The Democratic Party's failure to do so, by forfeiting its social bases, sidelining its active and positive material propositions and taking vote as a given against an enemy, will inevitably bring them failure.

He couldn't even knock back the claim about sad failed Russia being an imperialist power.