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To: chic_hearne who wrote (38994)	11/19/2000 10:18:30 AM
From: Ilaine	Respond to of 436258

>>Why does Communism have to originate out of Russia? Why can't it just be a point of view that anyone could develop on their own?<< You math types don't study history in college? -g-

To: chic_hearne who wrote (38994)	11/19/2000 10:46:57 AM
From: wsringeorgia	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 436258

Chic, you are right. Communism did not have to develop out of Russia. In fact even the Bolsheviks as late as 1923 looked to the Germans as the "leaders" of international communism; leading Germans, Rosa Luxemburg and others were regarded by even by those close to Lennin as the real leaders of the "world revolution". As late as 1923 German was still the language of the revolution. Communism was never (at least before Stalin) a monolith. Just like elsewhere the left in Russia was a very diverse bunch ranging from the anarchists (whose bullets bombs and daggers approach was just to blow everything up ande sort it out later) to the Social Revolutionaries (agrarian socalists) Mensheviks (who in practice wanted cohabitation with capitalism) to the Bolsheviks who prided themselves as being pragmatic (long term view) true Marxists. This whole business was a product of the semi-fuedal conditions (in Russia and elsewhere) and in a real sence a 19th century anacronisim. It was only a freak of history that brought Russia to the forefront of the "world revolution". WSR