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    1 year ago

    Okay but how was the soviet union to create a global proletarian revolution? They had to work with what they had.

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        1 year ago

        I’ve read Trot stuff and found their arguments unconvincing in this context. Global proletarian revolution is something we all have to exercise agency over, if youre in the soviet union you can’t just rely on everyone else spontaneously uprising, you have to plan for that not happening. And it didn’t happen, so…