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To: Crimson Ghost who wrote (24274)1/9/2005 4:13:29 PM
From: Raymond Duray  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110194
 
RESIST!

Fillmore,

In November, 1917 the Russian people finally had enough of the Czar. He'd led the nation into an unwinable war, had created vast inequality and chronic underemployment at home and had cut the food rations from one pound of black bread at the start of 1917 to one-quarter pound of bread per person in St. Petersburg in October. The troops were ill-provisioned, lacking food, ammunition and in some instances even shoes in the freezing trenches on the front..... just as the revolution began.

So, we've got a ways to go before we can count on the masses being motivated to rise up and do more than continue to gorge their obese faces on Doritos and Twinkies while watching surreality TV.

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If you haven't read "Ten Days that Shook the World", I recommend it highly. It's not a brainiac book, but rather an exciting eye-witness report on one of the most important events in human history.

marxists.org

-R.