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@abolisyonista @communism The other thing to take away from the Russian experience is that winning some kind of military victory against the counter-revolution _must not_ come at the expense of restoring all the worst features of the old order: "iron discipline" in the factories, command and submission in the military, etc.

Radek kind of hints at this in an incredibly prophetic passage in 1918:

"If the Russian revolution is crushed by the bourgeois counter-revolution, it will be reborn from its ashes like the Phoenix; but if it loses its socialist character, and by this disappoints the working masses, this blow will have ten times more terrible consequences for the future of the Russian and international revolution."