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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again? Archilochus

Sunday, November 26, 2017

It's Time to Organize the 2nd Stage of the Trump Revolution!

from Wikipedia
The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union. The Russian Empire collapsed with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution of February 1917 (March in the Gregorian calendar; the older Julian calendar was in use in Russia at the time). Alongside it arose grassroots community assemblies (called 'soviets') which contended for authority. In the second revolution that October, the Provisional Government was toppled and all power was given to the soviets.

The February Revolution (March 1917) was a revolution focused around Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), the capital of Russia at that time. In the chaos, members of the Imperial parliament (the Duma) assumed control of the country, forming the Russian Provisional Government which was heavily dominated by the interests of large capitalists and the noble aristocracy. The army leadership felt they did not have the means to suppress the revolution, resulting in Nicholas's abdication. The soviets, which were dominated by soldiers and the urban industrial working class, initially permitted the Provisional Government to rule, but insisted on a prerogative to influence the government and control various militias. The February Revolution took place in the context of heavy military setbacks during the First World War (1914–18), which left much of the Russian Army in a state of mutiny.

A period of dual power ensued, during which the Provisional Government held state power while the national network of soviets, led by socialists, had the allegiance of the lower classes and, increasingly, the left-leaning urban middle class. During this chaotic period there were frequent mutinies, protests and many strikes. Many socialist political organizations were engaged in daily struggle and vied for influence within the Duma and the soviets, central among which were the Bolsheviks ("Ones of the Majority") led by Vladimir Lenin who campaigned for an immediate end to the war, land to the peasants, and bread to the workers. When the Provisional Government chose to continue fighting the war with Germany, the Bolsheviks and other socialist factions were able to exploit virtually universal disdain towards the war effort as justification to advance the revolution further. The Bolsheviks turned workers' militias under their control into the Red Guards (later the Red Army) over which they exerted substantial control.

In the October Revolution (November in the Gregorian calendar), the Bolsheviks led an armed insurrection by workers and soldiers in Petrograd that successfully overthrew the Provisional Government, transferring all its authority to the soviets with the capital being relocated to Moscow shortly thereafter. The Bolsheviks had secured a strong base of support within the soviets and, as the now supreme governing party, established a federal government dedicated to reorganizing the former empire into the world's first socialist republic, practicing soviet democracy on a national and international scale. The promise to end Russia’s participation in the First World War was honored promptly with the Bolshevik leaders signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany in March 1918. To further secure the new state, the Cheka was established which functioned as a revolutionary security service that sought to weed out and punish those considered to be "enemies of the people" in campaigns consciously modeled on similar events during the French Revolution.

Soon after, civil war erupted among the "Reds" (Bolsheviks), the "Whites" (counter-revolutionaries), the independence movements and the non-Bolshevik socialists. It continued for several years, during which the Bolsheviks defeated both the Whites and all rival socialists and thereafter reconstituted themselves as the Communist Party. In this way, the Revolution paved the way for the creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1922. While many notable historical events occurred in Moscow and Petrograd, there was also a visible movement in cities throughout the state, among national minorities throughout the empire and in the rural areas, where peasants took over and redistributed land.
...climb aboard the Petite Bourgeoisie Express! SMALL is Beautiful! Make Corporations Go the Way of the Dinosaurs!

8 comments:

Joe Cameltoe said...

:)

(((Thought Criminal))) said...
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(((Thought Criminal))) said...

fail

FreeThinke said...

Everybody has a Laughing Place
A Laughing Place to gp Ho Ho@

Take that frown tirn it upsde down
And you'll find yours I know Ho Ho!


~ Uncle Remus, Song of the South, Walt Disney )1946)

FreeThinke said...

Too bad Uncle Remus was forced to go the way of Aunt Jemima, Little Black Sambo, Ten Litle Niggers, and the Nigger of the Narcissus!


SHEEYUT! We cain't even describe Ol' Ebenezer Scrooge As NIGGARDLY ennymo, even dough dat's Egg-ZACL-Lee wuut dat ol' skinflint wuzz.

FreeThinke said...

Zippity Doo Dah! Zippity Yay!
My oh my what a wonderful day!
Plenty o' sunshine headed my way
Zippity Doo Dah! Zippity Yay!


~ Uncle Remus, Song of the South )1946)

Dear ol' Uncle Remus! He never hurt anybody, and we loved him so much when we were little kids!

A much better role model if you ask me than W.E.B. Duoois, Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackass, Barack Opompom, Harry Bellaphony, Prince, Commie Van Jones, or EVEN –– The Reverend Doctor Martyr Luther King who was both whoremnger and a plagiarizer as well as a fellow traveler.

What movie are we going to ban next for Christ's sake –– Gone with the Wind?

Isn't MAMMY – who has always struck me as THE wisest, kindest, most admirable and endearing chracter in the whole schmeerange, a little too close to Aunt Jemima for comfort?

And Prissy, and Big Sam –– YABEDDAFUGGEDIT!

FreeThinke said...

Despite allthat, I have to say the Laughing Jiggaboo in that video is NO laughing matter. HE gives me the CREEPS!

-FJ the Dangerous and Extreme MAGA Jew said...

I like our President, Big Man Tyrone. :)