China Miéville on “October: The Story of the Russian Revolution” 

Which bombshell?

That liberalism at a time of crisis-as an institution, as a movement, as a group, as a political ideal-will choose reaction rather than change.

And not that power-hungry bastard Stalin, belittled as an intellectual even among the Bolsheviks. Russia would be a 200 years younger America, and perhaps even more influential, in the ushering of successful world communism, the global overthrow of the bourgeois establishment... Surely communism would not today be so demonized under Trotsky.

Trotsky was a garbage egoist.

@@zackwyvern2582 It would be demonized either way. America would propagandize Trotsky just like how they propagandize Stalin, and you'd be saying "If only Stalin succeeded Lenin" because you are incapable of realizing that there are lies about Stalin that stem from the bourgeoisie's desire to induce a Stockholm Syndrome onto the proletariat. Stalin was not a perfect man, and he did many things that are indefensible. But Trotsky would've turned the USSR into a bourgeois state 30 years earlier than it did with his petty-bourgeois revisionism and opportunism.

Albert Benson right?? 😶

China is such a windbag, but he can get away with it as he's so smart and eloquent

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