With all the failures of the European left, sometimes it feels like a miracle that the Bolsheviks actually figured things out.
I think it's anachronistic to compare the current or the post-war euro left with the bolsheviks. The bolsheviks struck first because they were up against a weak bourgeousie and a populace overwhelmingly against continuing a war that they were the only ones (besides the SRs) completely in favor of ending (and also because they had been illegalized so the normal way of attaining power was blocked to them), no amount of "figuring things out" makes to same conditions apply to any european country today, and no amount of larping makes any online ML today a bolshevik, unironically these old school official communist parties are closer to that bolshevik tradition than anyone else.
As hard as you write it it is wrong. For example in 1922 the CP France did create a forum to connect anti colonial activist in colonies, French included. However there were colonial aspects in some "communist" organizations within French (more than just the colonial/euro/racist suberstructure mindset). Lets not burn all French communists.
Lets do underline though that "communist parties" in France often mean left-liberal or social democratic, not revolutionary or parliamentarian communist parties.
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I think it's anachronistic to compare the current or the post-war euro left with the bolsheviks. The bolsheviks struck first because they were up against a weak bourgeousie and a populace overwhelmingly against continuing a war that they were the only ones (besides the SRs) completely in favor of ending (and also because they had been illegalized so the normal way of attaining power was blocked to them), no amount of "figuring things out" makes to same conditions apply to any european country today, and no amount of larping makes any online ML today a bolshevik, unironically these old school official communist parties are closer to that bolshevik tradition than anyone else.
As hard as you write it it is wrong. For example in 1922 the CP France did create a forum to connect anti colonial activist in colonies, French included. However there were colonial aspects in some "communist" organizations within French (more than just the colonial/euro/racist suberstructure mindset). Lets not burn all French communists.
Lets do underline though that "communist parties" in France often mean left-liberal or social democratic, not revolutionary or parliamentarian communist parties.