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mountaineer:
Suicide of the Liberals
  by Gary Saul Morson
   October 2020
First Things
--- Quote ---Between 1900 and 1917, waves of unprecedented terror struck Russia. Several parties professing incompatible ideologies competed (and cooperated) in causing havoc. Between 1905 and 1907, nearly 4,500 government officials and about as many private individuals were killed or injured. Between 1908 and 1910, authorities recorded 19,957 terrorist acts and revolutionary robberies, doubtless omitting many from remote areas. As the foremost historian of Russian terrorism, Anna Geifman, observes, “Robbery, extortion, and murder became more common than traffic accidents.”

Anyone wearing a uniform was a candidate for a bullet to the head or sulfuric acid to the face. Country estates were burnt down (“rural illuminations”) and businesses were extorted or blown up. Bombs were tossed at random into railroad carriages, restaurants, and theaters. Far from regretting the death and maiming of innocent bystanders, terrorists boasted of killing as many as possible, either because the victims were likely bourgeois or because any murder helped bring down the old order. A group of anarcho-­communists threw bombs laced with nails into a café bustling with two hundred customers in order “to see how the foul bourgeois will squirm in death agony.” ...

How did educated, liberal society respond to such terrorism? ...  Not just lawyers, teachers, doctors, and engineers, but even industrialists and bank directors raised money for the terrorists. Doing so signaled advanced opinion and good manners. A quote attributed to Lenin—“When we are ready to kill the capitalists, they will sell us the rope”—would have been more accurately rendered as: “They will buy us the rope and hire us to use it on them.” True to their word, when the Bolsheviks gained control, their organ of terror, the Cheka, “liquidated” members of all opposing parties, beginning with the Kadets. Why didn’t the liberals and businessmen see it coming?

...   Though some liberals recognized their differences from the radicals, most acted like intelligentsia wannabes who were unwilling to acknowledge, even to themselves, that their values were essentially different. Socialized to regard anything conservative as reprehensible—and still worse, as a social faux pas—they contrived ways to justify radical intolerance and violence as forced, understandable, and noble.   ...
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dfwgator:
The parallels are frightening.  People think the Russian Revolution started in 1917, but the fact is it had been going on for years before they finally succeeded.

skeeter:

--- Quote from: dfwgator on September 20, 2020, 10:19:05 pm ---The parallels are frightening.  People think the Russian Revolution started in 1917, but the fact is it had been going on for years before they finally succeeded.

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It was the peasant class that enabled the bolsheviks to succeed. All our marxist rats have are the urban/welfare class. And they're too well fed to do what it'll take.

Without the state to protect them, the progressives will have their asses handed to them here.

DB:
Will not yield.

Smokin Joe:

--- Quote from: dfwgator on September 20, 2020, 10:19:05 pm ---The parallels are frightening.  People think the Russian Revolution started in 1917, but the fact is it had been going on for years before they finally succeeded.

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I have been calling these red diaper baby jackwagons "Bolsheviks" all along.

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