Nations in their modern form all exist because of capitalism. Israel is actually “special” in that way, because it’s the Wests last mostly settler-colonial project, which results in all kinds of strange and anachronistic contradictions.

Those especially

Also their popularity in the countryside suffered only really due to them collectivizing the land after passing a land reform that created a owning farmers class out of a population of feudal serfs, who obviously had the interest of holding on to that newly found land ownership the Bolsheviks granted them.

Before they took over, more than 75% of the population couldn’t even read, so how would they be able to think for themselves and be mobilized by a party whose main organ is a newspaper?

But what am I even doing here, you obviously don’t know your history and are not interested in learning.

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What the fuck? The Bolsheviks were incredibly popular, especially in the cities, which led to them leading the socialist revolution as the vanguard.

Why do liberals love their anti-communist historical revisionism so much?

For you to be able to decide something like that, you’d at least need to have a basic grasp of his work.

It’s incredible what wild opinions people have about marxist theory when they’ve onviously never read any.

“He had different phases in his life, some more philosophical some more economic” what the actual fuck is that even supposed to mean

You should maybe learn the meaning of words before trying to use them, idealism does not mean “having ideals”. Idealism is the counterpart to materialism, and has been explained to you in another comment. But sure, that’s one way to respond, I guess.

“Idealism is not relevant to this discussion”

proceeds to use purely idealist arguments