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Is Bakunin sort of like a Mexican federalist?
10.7- The Paris Commune Revisited
Wherein we revisit the Paris Commune. Direct Link: 10.7- The Paris Commune Revisited
It's a shame that none of this Marxist theory really helps socialists figure out how to actually build a functioning socialist society if capitalism is abolished. The crucial question after a socialist revolution in, say Angola, for example is how do you run the factories after the capitalist is removed? Do the workers manage it? Does a government bureaucracy manage it? What is the best way to develop the economy? If two countries have a socialist revolution, one has a per capita GDP of $300, one has $9000, what is the appropriate development approach for the two countries? If you use the same strategy in both, you're going to have big problems. These seem to be questions that revolutionaries really had to deal with on the ground, and mostly had to improvise. The theory quickly ran out of usefulness, other than as a way to agitate the workers.
10.3- The Three Pillars of Marxism
According to Lenin, Karl Marx was, "the genius who continued and consummated the three main ideological currents of the 19th century, as represented by the three most advanced countries of mankind: classical German philosophy, classical English political economy, and French socialism combined wi...
Marx in the inaugural address: "Russia... that barbarous power, whose head is in St. Petersburg, and whose hands are in every cabinet of Europe"
That's pretty ironic.
10.1- The International Working Men's Association
In 1864, a group of working men formed an international association called The International Working Men's Association. Direct Link: 10.1- The International Working Men's Association
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