Mine,
The monarchy had already been overthrown by
December 1917. The Duma Lenin shut down was
not "under the patronage of the monarchy." The
electoral winners, were socialists and revolutionary
ones. Just a different brand than Lenin's Bolsheviks.
Marx praised the direct election of
No I SAID Duma was a monarchial liberal institution to begin with (1905
February revolution). so why should such an autocratic institution be
maintained under socialism? A new regime requires new institutions and
political restructuring. Duma was a transitory stage on the way to
socialim, once
Rob Schaap wrote:
if memory serves, Marx held out hope for revolution by constitutional
means within monarchies during his 1873 speech
Memory serves you poorly. By 1873 Marx had already given up any hope or
expectation of proletarian revolution anywhere. He'd based his life on the
great throw of
Mine,
The monarchy had already been overthrown by
December 1917. The Duma Lenin shut down was
not "under the patronage of the monarchy." The
electoral winners, were socialists and revolutionary
ones. Just a different brand than Lenin's Bolsheviks.
Marx praised the direct election
And, if memory serves, Marx held out hope for revolution by
constitutional
means within monarchies during his 1873 speech to the Working Men's
Association at The Hague (I think he cited Britain and The Netherlands -
both constitutional monarchies).
Rob, respectfully, you don't get it. Marx saw
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No I SAID Duma was a monarchial liberal institution to begin with (1905
February revolution). so why should such an autocratic institution be
maintained under socialism? A new regime requires new institutions and
political restructuring. Duma was a transit
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Rob Schaap wrote:
if memory serves, Marx held out hope for revolution by constitutional
