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Originally Posted by jwb
The irony is that the Russian peasants lived in small small agrarian communes that certain russian socialists took inspiration from in the late 19th/early 20th century. There were even attempts to indoctrinate them into marxist thought but the peasants were not particularly receptive to these attempts. The thought process was that they already existed in a sort of primitive form of communism so they would be the perfect recruits for such a movement. Problem being that while they might trust their neighbor enough to throw in together they don't trust a larger collective on a national scale. Such a concept is just utterly alien to someone who has always lives in a small tight knit community.
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Yeah there was actually an anarchist movement kind of at the same time as the Bolsheviks and years before who wanted to go to the peasants and educate them to make a peasant revolution possible and it went exactly as well as you might imagine a bunch of college kids moving into peasant farms and trying to educate those peasants on socialism might go.
And so those college kids were like hey this isn't working so why don't we just start planting bombs to kill rich people?
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