Comrad, is this you doubting the Party?
this post was submitted on 15 Jun 2025
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Another piece of evidence I use when I argue we've never seen a communist society.
Soviets as originally created were actually pretty based. Unfortunately the Bolsheviks crushed them about 5 minutes into their reign the moment they stopped being useful.
As Kropotkin wrote to Lenin in 1920
It would seem that the soviets should have served precisely this function of creating an organisation from below. But Russia has already become a Soviet Republic only in name. The influx and taking over of the people by the ‘party’, that’s is, predominantly the newcomers (the ideological communists are more in the urban centres), has already destroyed the influences and constructive energy of this promising institution – the soviets. At present, it is the party committees, not the soviets, who rule in Russia. And their organization suffers from the defects of bureaucratic organisation.
All power to the Soviets down with the Bolsheviks.
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