PugJesus
History MemesLike how “drain the swamp” turned into bribes and ballrooms.
Drain the swamp, we got a whole new swamp coming in and we need to make room
tbf, that one was at least obvious from the start. The Bolsheviks didn't have a long record, so thinking they might be sincere was a much more forgivable mistake.
"Power to the Soviets?
No! Power to a small group of individuals over everyone else."
Explanation: After the October Revolution, the Bolshevik faction took power in a coup from the Russian provisional government organizing elections. One of their many slogans was "All power to the Soviets!", the Soviets being the local democratic workers' councils.
After dissolving the democratically elected socialist-supermajority national legislature that was returned by the recent elections, they opted to... forbid the Soviets from having new elections to maintain their power over the Soviets without the risk of the workers making the 'wrong' choices. And after that, they would dissolve the other parties and allow only the (single, picked) candidate of the Bolsheviks to run in the elections (almost always uncontested).
NO power to the Soviets!
Do you have a good source to read more about this? I have been searching on this what feels like half an hour and the results are not saying anything on the topic or either boil down to 'Soviet=Communist dictatorship gulag 100 billion dead' or 'Your boot tastes so good comrade Stalin'
The problem with self government is that governing Is a shitty job that people will gladly let someone do for them.
The only solution is to never have more than a dozen or so humans in the same place at the same time or you’re gonna need a government.
The only solution is to never have more than a dozen or so humans in the same place at the same time or you’re gonna need a government.
try two. for someone keen on learning lessons, I fucked up understanding the amount of infrastructure necessary to keep TWO fucking people on the same page, TWICE.
A dozen sounds a little dangerous
I mean, I wouldn’t want to be there but some people are gregarious.
