Russian rev. was attempt at radical participatory democracy (the Soviets) to overcome state, but co-opted by some Bolsheviks
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co-opted by threat of war (WW1 & then Whites) to form a new state with (initial) ambition/promise of dissolving itself.
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promise that was practically (although rhetorically) abandoned by the mid 20s. So, tweep's cold-war comment is irrelevant...
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and you are right in calling them out on that, but then wrong in proceeding to say it was never stateless....
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... as anarchists, we have a lot to learn from initially successes & eventual failure of anarchism in the Russian revolution
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we must know how well meaning & radical revolutionaries ended up building another imperialist machine instead of communism.
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but we can't learn that if we pretend soviets were never about abolishing state. Many joined soviets for anarchist reasons.
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noted anarchist joseph stalin
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It's as if they never figured out what "USSR" meant.
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This is typical tankie trolling. Rather than work through the failures of communism, they'd rather celebrate and apologize for them.
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