Marxist Revolution USSR

WSWS is NOT your go to for 1956. Bill Lomax or the castoriadians (socialisme ou barbarie/ solidarity(U.K.)).

1956 offered the possibility of a workers control revolution to the Soviet working class and nomenklatura. To wank it delay the Warsaw Pact exit and/or have Nagy mobilise the honved as Gomulka did. Then the Mikoyan reports could prove "the new course" line as correct.

Yours,
Sam R.
 
WSWS is NOT your go to for 1956. Bill Lomax or the castoriadians (socialisme ou barbarie/ solidarity(U.K.)).

1956 offered the possibility of a workers control revolution to the Soviet working class and nomenklatura. To wank it delay the Warsaw Pact exit and/or have Nagy mobilise the honved as Gomulka did. Then the Mikoyan reports could prove "the new course" line as correct.

Yours,
Sam R.
Wait why is the WSWS not my go?
 
WSWS are orthotrots with party historians. They tend to read their line into history, rather than reading history to develop their line. If you're expert at reading an orthotrot line out of a work than go for it. But other sources will be easier and present history more directly. It isn't as easy a line to read out as pabloism or cliffism for example.


By contrast Lomax is an academic historian and the castoriadians formed their line in response to 1956.

Yours,
Sam R.
 

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I read somewhere a lot of the solidarity leaders were either KGB or CIA assets. In any case very different era and situation.

I just think its such a cool idea-having a Marxist revolution in the 30s USSR, the workers storming Stalin's office and reinvigorating the USSR.
This is literally exactly what happened in China during the cultural revolution when radical left wing workers and students did storm party offices to reinvigorate socialism. Even very high ranking officials like the PRC president got dragged out and beaten in the streets.
 
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