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for all the "anti-authoritarians" out there (lemmy.ml)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Remind me, what exactly did the red army do to put the communists in power?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Took advantage of a wildly unpopular government during WWI to hold a revolution, taking the Winter Palace.

It wasn't just a random strike and coup, but a revolutionary movement backed by a mass of workers.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

That's what a coup is.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A coup is a revolutionary movement with mass support? Are all revolutions coups?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

A coup is the violent overthrow of a government, so if the revolution is violent, yeah.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

That's a bit goofy, but then I will amend the original statement with clarity: revolutionaries do not necessarily support random individual movements, but mass revolutionary action among the workers.