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If you have to take your best guess, when do you think that the socialist revolution will happen in the USA? Please explain the reasoning behind your guess. (lemmygrad.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (2 children)

In January 1917, Lenin thought the revolution would not happen in his lifetime. Conditions were very different then, but it's a good reminder that life is unpredictable.

We of the older generation may not live to see the decisive battles of this coming revolution. But I can, I believe, express the confident hope that the youth which is working so splendidly in the socialist movement of Switzerland, and of the whole world, will be fortunate enough not only to fight, but also to win, in the coming proletarian revolution.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1917/jan/09.htm

[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

I wonder how pessimistic Lenin would have been if he knew about Vaush.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

He would have given him the Kautsky treatment and dedicate a chapter long dunk in state and revolution to him

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

The kind Vladimir Ilyich would have funny clown hammered everyone here.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

People like Vaush have always existed. Lenin had to live at the same time as Eduard Bernstein and Kautsky (to a lesser extent)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

The Kautsky comparison always gets brought up but Kautsky actually read Marx and wasn't a pedophile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago

yeh even the losers that the old marxists clowned on were more well read than most "left wingers" today

[–] [email protected] 7 points 16 hours ago

You got me there

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Damn, so he at least saw young people be revolutionary. Most people younger than me that I meet are fascist or soc dems.