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Has There Ever Been a Socialist Revolution in a Liberal Country? (hexbear.net)
submitted 10 months ago by SevenSkalls@hexbear.net to c/asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml
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I'm watching the DNC, and it's made me even more aware of the power of liberal bourgeois democracies to let out a little revolutionary energy whenever it gets close to the edge, through concessional policies, like New Deal policies or whatever Kamala might do if she wins, or even the act of voting and campaigning itself. Do they have to go through a fascism phase first, or has there been a liberal bourgeois democracy that has successfully had a socialist revolution? Will it take new theory to figure it out?

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[โ€“] muad_dibber@lemmygrad.ml 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Russia wasn't a liberal country, it was a feudal monarchy, and the transition was from feudalism -> socialism, with peasants forming the basis of the revolutionary army (same for China, Vietnam, DPRK, etc). See my other comment but so far there hasn't been any historical case (besides the USSR dragging east germany into socialism) of a capitalist -> socialist transition.

[โ€“] UlyssesT@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

I may have used the term too loosely, but at the time, the western powers did see Nicholas II as some enlightened "reasonable" cosmopolitan reformist that they could shape like clay.