Thank you. Please check the clip on youtube called " why Hegel knew there would be days like these". Yes Marx had also warned about russian situation in advance because he had understood Hegel better than Lenin who had a strong Ego and determined to jump ahead of history which we know how it failed and left a mess for Stalin to deal with it and the rest of the world. Putin clearly said that Lenin was a revolutionary and not a politician and therefore left a huge mess for the country and Stalin to deal with it. You can say what you want but Putin has more knowledge and hands on the problems that they have experienced after Lenin. Unfortunately people judge Marx based on Lenin which is totally upside down because Marx had warned russian revilutionaries in 19 century. Yes it was before Lenin but apparently Marx with sharp eyes was aware of the russian sentiment. Thanks
Very good summation on this part of the 1917 revolution. Also enlightening thoughts on the challenges facing a revolutionary "leadership". Concerning Stalin, I've never bought the statement that he would have been some mediocre figure! I don't think a mediocre person could have taken control of the USSR! I have no love for Stalin but I imagine he was a hard working organiser. Good talk!
Imo it makes more sense to think about it as he was selected by the developing bureaucracy specifically because he was so mediocre and undeveloped as a revolutionary. During the upswing, he had nothing to offer and no independent theory, but during the counter-revolution that mediocrity as a revolutionary made him the ideal leader
@@fenceyhen4249 Trotsky's theory is anti-Lenin. Trotsky sold out USSR spies in USA, abusing his knowledge of socialist comrades and his authority of the revolution to meet the USA socialists. Stalin and the USSR carried out world revolution during the cold war. Trotsky couldn't do shit. He failed his world revolution BS in Poland, failed his assassination plot against Lenin, Stalin and the true old Bolsheviks, he and the other Mensheviks opportunists were ratted out and destroyed. Every Trotskyist I know repeats Khrushchev revisionist talking points. Extending their hatred for Stalin, into the hatred for all socialist experiences outside the Imperialist bloc. I have yet met a single Trotskyist that does not repeat NATO propaganda about the global South.
While there were indeed paintings that falsely portrayed Stalin as Lenin's "comrade-in-arms" during 1917, I don't think the man behind Lenin is meant to be him. Stalin-era Soviet historical texts, for all their efforts to exaggerate Stalin's role, make no claim that he was on the train.
Interesting point about the "sealed train" in that it was a condition of Lenin's, as opposed to the popular idea that this was engineered by the Germans to somehow send their "sleeper agent" in a sealed sleeper wagon to cause mischief, as if he was a special delivery parcel. If that were true, the sleeper agent allegation that it, then the best way to make it obvious that there is a special agent on board is to have a sealed train, as someone very important who is answerable to the highest echelon of the German authorities would no doubt be on-board, afforded the greatest secrecy (until he disembarks). Nothing to see here folks, just a sealed train, no-one important on board. Carry on. Why not spirit him into Russia in a coffin wagon, a la Dracula, eh conspiracy minded anti-Marxists? That would be more inconspicuous, as long as the air holes were overlooked.
That Lenin received money and other aid from Germany has been documented since the 1950s, German records make this clear. That Lenin accepted guns, money, military trainers and advisors from the Germans doesn't mean he was working for them. He entered into a conspiracy with them because they wanted Russia out of the war and Lenin wanted a socialist revo in Russia. Strange bedfellows, but bedfellows. The truth is in between Woods' head-in-the-sand denial of the extensive cooperation between the two, and the charge that Lenin was a German "agent."
The narrator of this splendid account of the April Theses did a fabulous job.
I congratulate you comrade Alan Wood at the bottom of my heart. The talk about April theses was wonderfully articulated and accurate!
Inaccurate, this is hagiography.
I mistakenly had this at 1.25x speed and wondered why he was talking so fast haha
1.25x with Alan Woods is normal talking speed lol
Thank you. Please check the clip on youtube called " why Hegel knew there would be days like these". Yes Marx had also warned about russian situation in advance because he had understood Hegel better than Lenin who had a strong Ego and determined to jump ahead of history which we know how it failed and left a mess for Stalin to deal with it and the rest of the world. Putin clearly said that Lenin was a revolutionary and not a politician and therefore left a huge mess for the country and Stalin to deal with it. You can say what you want but Putin has more knowledge and hands on the problems that they have experienced after Lenin. Unfortunately people judge Marx based on Lenin which is totally upside down because Marx had warned russian revilutionaries in 19 century. Yes it was before Lenin but apparently Marx with sharp eyes was aware of the russian sentiment. Thanks
Very good summation on this part of the 1917 revolution. Also enlightening thoughts on the challenges facing a revolutionary "leadership".
Concerning Stalin, I've never bought the statement that he would have been some mediocre figure! I don't think a mediocre person could have taken control of the USSR! I have no love for Stalin but I imagine he was a hard working organiser.
Good talk!
Imo it makes more sense to think about it as he was selected by the developing bureaucracy specifically because he was so mediocre and undeveloped as a revolutionary. During the upswing, he had nothing to offer and no independent theory, but during the counter-revolution that mediocrity as a revolutionary made him the ideal leader
@@fenceyhen4249 Trotsky's theory is anti-Lenin. Trotsky sold out USSR spies in USA, abusing his knowledge of socialist comrades and his authority of the revolution to meet the USA socialists. Stalin and the USSR carried out world revolution during the cold war. Trotsky couldn't do shit. He failed his world revolution BS in Poland, failed his assassination plot against Lenin, Stalin and the true old Bolsheviks, he and the other Mensheviks opportunists were ratted out and destroyed. Every Trotskyist I know repeats Khrushchev revisionist talking points. Extending their hatred for Stalin, into the hatred for all socialist experiences outside the Imperialist bloc.
I have yet met a single Trotskyist that does not repeat NATO propaganda about the global South.
What was the reason why Trotsky left to Mexico and then.. just curious
The description says that Alan is the editor, not author of Bolshevism
Nice
The featured artistic drawing that appears before the video begins is an Stalinist falsification. Stalin was never on that train!
While there were indeed paintings that falsely portrayed Stalin as Lenin's "comrade-in-arms" during 1917, I don't think the man behind Lenin is meant to be him. Stalin-era Soviet historical texts, for all their efforts to exaggerate Stalin's role, make no claim that he was on the train.
Interesting point about the "sealed train" in that it was a condition of Lenin's, as opposed to the popular idea that this was engineered by the Germans to somehow send their "sleeper agent" in a sealed sleeper wagon to cause mischief, as if he was a special delivery parcel. If that were true, the sleeper agent allegation that it, then the best way to make it obvious that there is a special agent on board is to have a sealed train, as someone very important who is answerable to the highest echelon of the German authorities would no doubt be on-board, afforded the greatest secrecy (until he disembarks). Nothing to see here folks, just a sealed train, no-one important on board. Carry on.
Why not spirit him into Russia in a coffin wagon, a la Dracula, eh conspiracy minded anti-Marxists? That would be more inconspicuous, as long as the air holes were overlooked.
That Lenin received money and other aid from Germany has been documented since the 1950s, German records make this clear. That Lenin accepted guns, money, military trainers and advisors from the Germans doesn't mean he was working for them. He entered into a conspiracy with them because they wanted Russia out of the war and Lenin wanted a socialist revo in Russia. Strange bedfellows, but bedfellows. The truth is in between Woods' head-in-the-sand denial of the extensive cooperation between the two, and the charge that Lenin was a German "agent."