"We cannot evaluate the October Revolution as either unambiguously positive or sharply negative. We acknowledge that it came at the cost of enormous sacrifices, but we do not regard it merely as chaos and destruction. We see in it not only a catastrophe, but also a historical necessity—an inevitable act of negation of the old world, inevitable because the mistakes had already been made and were leading towards catastrophe."
If that is true, what will transpire at the end of the demonstrably more corrupt and hegemonic American/Israeli empire? The American/Israeli empire affects the entire world in negative ways.
"possessing three key qualities that the old elite had lost: the will to power, a coherent ideology, and organizational discipline" I would say only two. The idea of a coherent ideology is very debatable and the post Soviet movie Burnt by the Sun is a good example of this. The only coherence was that it was an ideology of eating ones own. Today's hero is tomorrows enemy of the state.
"Ideology of eating ones own" sounds very clumsy, the film "Burnt by the Sun" certainly has some truthful basis, but this film is a caricature of that time.
But why can't Bolshevism be considered as "ideology of eating ones own"? Because this phrase is more about revolution, there is a common phrase "revolution devours its own children." In general, consistency is determined not by the victims of an ideology, but by how consistent a picture of the world it provides to its supporters, and Marxism-Leninism clearly outperforms the Tsarist or Februaryist government, as well as the "Whites" (who are mostly not far removed from the above-mentioned groups). This is exactly what I wanted to say!
First the Revolution, then the civil war and then purge after purge (eating ones own). I am not defending the Czar or czarist government, but I do question the methods of Bolshevism in relation to the results.
"We cannot evaluate the October Revolution as either unambiguously positive or sharply negative. We acknowledge that it came at the cost of enormous sacrifices, but we do not regard it merely as chaos and destruction. We see in it not only a catastrophe, but also a historical necessity—an inevitable act of negation of the old world, inevitable because the mistakes had already been made and were leading towards catastrophe."
If that is true, what will transpire at the end of the demonstrably more corrupt and hegemonic American/Israeli empire? The American/Israeli empire affects the entire world in negative ways.
"possessing three key qualities that the old elite had lost: the will to power, a coherent ideology, and organizational discipline" I would say only two. The idea of a coherent ideology is very debatable and the post Soviet movie Burnt by the Sun is a good example of this. The only coherence was that it was an ideology of eating ones own. Today's hero is tomorrows enemy of the state.
"Ideology of eating ones own" sounds very clumsy, the film "Burnt by the Sun" certainly has some truthful basis, but this film is a caricature of that time.
But why can't Bolshevism be considered as "ideology of eating ones own"? Because this phrase is more about revolution, there is a common phrase "revolution devours its own children." In general, consistency is determined not by the victims of an ideology, but by how consistent a picture of the world it provides to its supporters, and Marxism-Leninism clearly outperforms the Tsarist or Februaryist government, as well as the "Whites" (who are mostly not far removed from the above-mentioned groups). This is exactly what I wanted to say!
First the Revolution, then the civil war and then purge after purge (eating ones own). I am not defending the Czar or czarist government, but I do question the methods of Bolshevism in relation to the results.