But seriously, why didn't communism triumph in the 20th century when things were looking so good? If the russian revolution and chinese revolution can succeed, liberating 800 million people, 1/3rd of the world's population, defeat the nazis, why couldnt we finish the final stretch? What was the fatal flaw?

  • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Extreme :doubt: for this, especially on the grounds that it's ridiculous to think Trotsky's presence would have been the deciding factor in a successful western/central European revolution.

    • vccx [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Trotsky and part of the Red Army doing an Internationalism

      • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        World War 2 20 years earlier with an excuse for the entire west to openly ally with the fascists.

        • vccx [they/them]
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          3 years ago

          That's fair but if German Communists won there wouldn't have been a Third Reich. I also think France would have been rolled BC of how underindustrialized France is compared to Germany, even up to today.

          Communist France could also have flipped the Spanish Civil War so the only capitalist power left on the continent would have been TERF island.