I just discovered that Radical Reviewer believes the western account of the 1932 Ukranian famine, and I could not be more disappointed.
I just discovered that Radical Reviewer believes the western account of the 1932 Ukranian famine, and I could not be more disappointed.
The Makhnovists power base was the peasantry, they were the centrist option between white army serfdom and red army collectivization and requisitioning grain for the cities. Though Makhno would later lose support due to him too using forced requisitioning and conscription of the peasantry under the pretext that the community had as a whole voluntarily accepted anarchism and as a whole had volunteered for mobilization, meaning individuals had no say in the matter.
And why would the Bolsheviks collaborate with Anarchists who had committed terrorist acts against Bolshevik figures and engaged in pure banditry against supply lines while openly advocating the razing of the soviet state? This great betrayal shit is fucking cringe, own up to the fact that the Anarchists were locked in a mortal battle with the Bolsheviks and fucking lost once the white army threat was eliminated.
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The most infuriating part is if I point out the literal terrorist bombings that nearly killed prominent figures like Bukharin or the assassination attempt on Lenin, a ton of anarchists will reply that that stuff was cool and based without resolving the contradiction of the Bolsheviks betraying people who literally tried to destroy the Bolsheviks.
The truth of the matter is the Bolsheviks didnt betray the anarchists, the anarchists who wanted a revolution and recognized reality in what was happening joined the Bolshevik party, and those who were more interested in idealistically fighting all states equally decided to attack the Bolsheviks and were therefore obviously enemies to be destroyed.