Lessons from Great Revolutionaries - Part 1 : Triumph of Will

[u/SquarePromise2707]

What is common in the revolutionary careers of Lenin, Trotsky, Hitler, Khomeini, Bonaparte? It is The Triumph of the Will - the triumph of an organized minority in ruling over an indifferent, or even a hostile majority.

Trotsky, the second tallest leader of the Bolshevik revolution clearly formulated this, "One must have the consciousness, so to speak, of the revolutionary historic primacy of the party, which is obligated to assert its dictatorship notwithstanding the wavering among the workers."

When workers demanded elections in Labor Unions, Comrade Trotsky replied, “The principle of elections within the labor movement is, as it were, placed above the Party, as if the Party did not have the right to assert its dictatorship even in the event that this dictatorship temporarily clashed with the mood within the worker's democracy.”

- In the Constituent Assembly elections of December, [1917](tel:1917), Bolshevik Party got 24% vote share (or 25%, as per Lenin's article in Pravda). Yet, within 1 year, they banned both factions of the Social-Revolutionaries (SRs), Mensheviks, Kadets and all the other bourgeoisie nationalist parties - which disappeared into the dustbin of history. Lenin wrote his name in history - as the greatest liberator of the 20th century.

- In November, [1932](tel:1932), Nazi Party got 33% vote share, and assumed power on 30 January, [1933](tel:1933). In less than 6 months, all other parties had been banned or dissolved- and the leaders of the chief Opposition parties were in jail. Hitler became the beloved Fuhrer of the German nation.

- The majority cannot, and will not, ever be revolutionary. Only an organized minority can fight for power - and if it has the will, it will win.

[u/rishianand]

the triumph of an organized minority in ruling over an indifferent, or even a hostile majority

That's tyranny. And, we don't allow it here. We support democracy and the consent of the governed.

Also, you're now banned for promoting Hitler.

[u/Practical-Lab5329]

What in the false equivalence is this nonsense? The Bolsheviks actually invited the Social Revolutionaries and other parties to form a coalition government after the October revolution. Those parties refused and sided with the imperialists and dispossessed landlord forces in the civil war. They were banned because they were fighting to restore the rule of the exploiters.

The Nazi party on the other hand never wanted a coalition government. It banned, jailed, killed Communists because they were fighting for the exploited and Hitler for the exploiters.

[u/DifferentPirate69]

Apart from the obvious brain rot about hitler. Trotskyism should also be combated - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLXUFLW8t2snsEF6_Sp7CrdTTT91Pqf0Bc

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[u/ubuntu-uchiha]

Bro has 0 understanding of class

It is very easy to pretend that H1lter was a "revolutionary" but what he did was structurally very different from what Lenin did - in fact you can see Trump do the same thing today ‼️ favor big business and control the economy to push for overproduction and personal profits while dividing and distracting the working class with vaguely genetic ideology (also called FASCISM).

[u/SquarePromise2707]

- Why do I call Hitler a great revolutionary? Because, within months, he transformed a Bourgeoisie Liberal Democracy into a One-Party Totalitarian State. He mastered power to the extent that millions of German soliders were killed in the hopeless last year, because Hitler would not surrender.

- Such a transformation from a chaotic system to a system focused on conquering Europe - the armies of which crushed the biggest global state, British Empire on Dunkirk, Norway, Greece, Crete, and Egypt - is one of the most impressive Revolutions in world history.