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I'm not. But even Communism is not synonymous with Bolshevism. You really should "learn your enemy" - atm you're just repeating ahistorical platitudes.

• geezerjay 9y ago
  > I'm not. Well, you clearly are, and in the process you're showing that you are completely clueless, and resorting to veiled personal attacks to try to hide the fact that you know nothing. > But even Communism is not synonymous with Bolshevism. This wouldn't be a standard communist revisionism discussion without the tired and old "no true scotsman" arguments.
  • jahaja 9y ago
    You're not doing too well regarding that either it seems. I already tried to guard against the "no true scotsman" reflexive replies in my answer above, but to no avail. That there were many different socialist faction, and among them many non-authoritarian, is not revisionism, but available to read about for anyone that want to learn about the history of the Russian revolution. Alexander Berkman even published a diary in 1922 after fleeing Russia detailing the early years of the revolution and the totalitarian betrayal of the Bolsheviks. This is the last few paragraphs to illustrate the point: "Gray are the passing days. One by one the embers of hope have died out. Terror and despotism have crushed the life born in October. The slogans of the Revolution are foresworn, its ideals stifled in the blood of the people. The breath of yesterday is dooming millions to death; the shadow of today hangs like a black pall over the country. Dictatorship is trampling the masses under foot. The Revolution is dead; its spirit cries in the wilderness. High time the truth about the Bolsheviki were told. The whited sepulcher must be unmasked, the clay feet of the fetish beguiling the international proletariat to fatal will o’ the wisps exposed. The Bolshevik myth must be destroyed. I have decided to leave, Russia."