Political Compass of the Revolution - Who Were You in 1917 Russia?

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>Political life was exceedingly tumultuous in 1917. Some parties and groups wanted to give all the land to the peasants and all the factories to the workers; others thirsted to fight in the war to a final victory; still others dreamed of demolishing the government to its very foundations. In order to find out which of these groups you might have been a part of, you can use the Political Compass of the Revolution. Its horizontal axis refers to economic preferences, from the extreme left (socialists) to the extreme right (liberals). The vertical axis maps out data about political inclinations, from democratic to authoritarian. We have laid out the ten basic political forces in the Revolution along these axes (see below). In order to find out where you would have fallen, you need to take our quiz and evaluate 27 assertions about the most pressing problems in September 1917, after the Kornilov Affair had failed, but before the October Revolution took place. You should not use the Compass to define your modern preferences. The situations of the different parties is tightly connected to September 1917: the position of many – in particular the Bolsheviks – later shifted on certain issues, even so far as to land on the directly opposite pole. Therefore, the proximity of any party or group to another on the Compass does not necessarily mean that they were allies in the political struggle: a group’s position on the graph is merely the sum of their ideological positions.

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I'm almost sure to be liquidated.

I'll join you in the mass graves.

>Private property is a natural right and a vital economic institution.

This means capital right?

Menshevik Internationalist

As far as I know there is no political theory yet that advocates for sharing personal property. Not even anarchists want to take your tootbrush.

So yes, capital.

ONWARDS AGAINST THE GERMAN MENACE

I got anarchist, but I'm not an anarchist. I just want all power to the soviets instead of burocrats.

Anarchist the best -ist.

Bolsheviks south of the equator?
Graph obviously inaccurate.

lrn2read

>The situations of the different parties is tightly connected to September 1917: the position of many – in particular the Bolsheviks – later shifted on certain issues, even so far as to land on the directly opposite pole.

Comrade, my allegiance is to the Constituent Assembly, to DEMOCRACY!

Menshevik Internationalist mater race

Cyka

>tfw my child laborers are complaining about their 16 hour shifts again

I hope people in the bottom left of the chart realize that they're supporting their own execution? Silly anarchists like you are the first to be dragged off and shot in the name of love and brotherhood. The Bolsheviks were not revolting against Tsarism, but against the possibility of liberalism, and Lenin, being a true leftist, hated liberals more than reactionaries. Lenin was wound up and sent into Russia by the G*rmans to destroy Russia and take them out of the war. Even if you're a leftist, only a mongoloid would've supported the Bolshevik revolution, because if you actually read Marx and others, socialism can only come about after the liberal-bourgeoisie have created a large, alienated proletariat, then members of the bourgeoisie join up with the workers, forming a sort of brain for the people's fist, and then they seize the means of production, etc etc. Although this theory is all baloney at least if you believe it, try to be consistent. Pure Marxian theoreticians like Georgi Plekhanov hated the revolution because they knew that the Bolsheviks would inevitably drag Russia into what we'd call a "third world dictatorship", because there was no industrial proletariat in Russia at the time of the revolution. This is why socialist governments can never industrialize their country without becoming "state-capitalists", or simply utilitarian-tyrants.

The inevitable failure of that revolution caused leftists in Italy and elsewhere to seek a new means to industrialize. That pragmatic move away from revolutionary anarcho-syndicalism arrived at national-syndicalism, or "fascism". A nation cannot industrialize and compete with the bourgeois nations unless it has absolute national solidarity, they argued. This developed into a philosophical system based on Giovanni Gentile's Hegelian-Idealism in "The Theory of Mind as Pure Act", opposed to Marx's Hegelian-Materialism (which is a contradiction in terms anyway).

The October Revolution was a willed, and terrible mistake.

I break mirrors with my face in the tsars old place

*blocks youre path*

Greetings friend.

As a clerical fascist that am i, i got this

>tfw no options in the bottom right

What am I supposed to do?

fuck bolsheviks tbqh

>he thinks the bottom right exists

LONG LIVE THE TSAR

I usually get more high middle, or high middle-left. The compasses usually call me a fascist or a national socialist. I don't know why this one leans so right, but whatever.

I'm actually a ultra-traditional monarchist.

This is now a Black Russian thread. Commies, anarchists, and centrists can get the fuck out.

Who are the "cadets"?

I guess I am going to get to fight in the front lines in the up coming civil war against the reds and die.

It doesn't necessarily say that you're a fascist as it's from the perspective of the Russian 1917 political situation.

Hopefully those fucking Czechs will take over the Trans-Siberian Railway quicker so I can run to Vladivostok and be taken to the US. Ya boi is in trouble otherwise.

Ayy yo where my niggas at?

you're not fascist then, you're probably proto-fascist

guess I'm with Kerensky

I got Bolshevik. Ura!

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Constitutional Democrats. Middle class liberals basically.

Guess I'll flee abroad when all this inevitably backfires.

Pretty sure Bolsheviks should be higher up, the core ideology of Leninism is the authorities vanguard party that will lead all the unenlightened masses to communsism

Ruh Roh

>Democratic
Is anyone supposed to actually believe this?

Proud not to be a Bolshevik

what does this mean

Gulag 10 years.

Thanks user.

Copy the american system(of that time). Strong but limited and decentralized state

Tfw not fashy enough for the Black Hundreds

Fuck wrong pic

How come there were so many Menshevik factions, given how small they were compared to the SRs and Bolsheviks?

No clear consensus among the Menshevik party about their goals while starting off.
Greetings, comrades.

Menshevik here, AMA

Defensist, mind.

Huh. I'm usually a central left democrat on these things.

What would a Menshevik Russia have been like?

>far away from the political forces of 1917 Russia

It means you will get to go to a gulag with a human face