I got through the first half hour. The core of his argument seems to be that the Bolsheviks were all rich kids who believed a bunch of stereotypes about peasants, and then got mad when the peasants didn't live up to their expectations and erroneously decided that peasants had to be eliminated as a class in order to build socialism. He spends a lot of time talking about how the Russian peasants had some similarities to anarchist praxis, but doesn't seem to care about the peasants who owned property and did capitalist praxis. He's also strangely mum on the topic of workers' councils and the massive support - including the support of many, many peasants - that the communists had before, during, and after the civil war.
A lot of what he said is extremely bad, which is why I stopped watching it. No, all socialists aren't rich kids. No, all Marxist-Leninist states aren't dictatorships.
I got through the first half hour. The core of his argument seems to be that the Bolsheviks were all rich kids who believed a bunch of stereotypes about peasants, and then got mad when the peasants didn't live up to their expectations and erroneously decided that peasants had to be eliminated as a class in order to build socialism. He spends a lot of time talking about how the Russian peasants had some similarities to anarchist praxis, but doesn't seem to care about the peasants who owned property and did capitalist praxis. He's also strangely mum on the topic of workers' councils and the massive support - including the support of many, many peasants - that the communists had before, during, and after the civil war.
A lot of what he said is extremely bad, which is why I stopped watching it. No, all socialists aren't rich kids. No, all Marxist-Leninist states aren't dictatorships.
they are dictatorships...
Of the proletariat
:chad-stalin: