The Working Class and the Betrayal of the Russian Revolution

A short documentary presented at WestMinster college for national history day. The video gives a brief outline of the Russian revolution from a socialist (Trotskyist) perspective.

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[PeteJones100]

do u seriously think religion has anything to do with this?

[dragonman98]

Yes, the Russian and Chinese had a little bit of capitalism in their countries, but the "communist" revolutions made them more capitalist. China today is more capitalist than America. Yes, we should abolish the wages system.

[4500jas]

It is estimated that about 22,000 people die in America every year just because they don't have healthcare. But for some reason when the Russian Working class gets vengeance on their oppressors and exploiters it is deemed terror and the oppression and exploitation is viewed as Just.

[4500jas]

Great video, the White Armies killed Hundred of thousands of people. No one seems to have heard the term "White Terror", which was far worse than so called "Red Terror." Red terror was born out of White Terror, which came first.

[chris96kalonji]

@PeteJones100 It does. Christian and Catholic churches are big business. Did you know they receive millions to trillions of dollers just on donations? While all they do is lie, and tell you that if you don't donate you're a supporter of the devil, and what-not. They will also tell you you're going to go to hell. Religion has a lot to do with this.

[schizoidboy]

@themyomy Yes I do, particularly the fact that the war in Cambodia was more or less over and there was no excuse for the Khmer Rouge to slaughter their own people except to hold absolute control over them. There is a difference between war and slaughtering your own people once you take power. At least if a bomber is flying over head it can be shot down, reeducation camp inmates don't have that luxury.

[themyomy]

vive la revolution !

[themyomy]

@schizoidboy You see things very very simplisticly ,700,000 Cambodians were slaughtered by the USA before any Pol Pot, how many millions of Vietnamese were also slaughtered by the USA and Batista tortured and murdered 20,000 Cubans . Communism is a reaction to exploitation ,greed,racism,sexism,xenophobi­a,war and hatered !

[sarlokkin]

Systems of politics always fail because they're not alone.

[schizoidboy]

The problem was it wasn't just Stalin. Other countries using communist principles all end up setting up totalitarian societies that were just as vicious as Stalin. China and Cambodia lost huge portions of their populations and countries such as Cuba and Vietnam as well as East Germany suffered huge defections from their own people. Something sure isn't working here...

[squidnell]

ironic going to a private school and being a socialist