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Marx thought Russia had a unique opportunity to sidestep capitalist development, and kick off revolution in the west. He made it clear that if conditions continued as they had, however, that this opportunity would never materialize. I've read Capital and its post-scripts, I've read his letters to Russian revolutionaries. I used to be an anarchist, and these get thrown around all the time to make it seem like Marx was supportive of anarchism at the end of his life (which he wasn't). This isn't new information to me, you're just confusing Marx saying Russia had a great opportunity to skip capitalism with Marx saying he thought Russia would in fact do so.
Marx did not merely say they had an opportunity in the abstract, he was directly involved with them and actively seeking to aid them. That is not the action of someone who merely once on the side referenced it as a vague possibility then effectively rejected it, which is what you now have to claim to deny the actual history and Marx's own words on the topic to maintain the idea that Marx effectively only thought a revolution would happen in the west. Just stop going in circles.
Dawg I feel like I need to let you know that you're allowed to say you made a simple misunderstanding instead of getting stuck in to a pedantic debate on the internet. Seems like maybe you don't know this or something. Like, you can just say "ah yeah, my bad" and walk away from your keyboard and everything will be chill as hell afterwards.
There was no misunderstanding, thanks.
There absolutely was, no matter how many times I explain that I never said Marx believed revolution would only happen in the west you keep insisting that I did. Either you misunderstand, or you deliberately lie. This is wrecker bullshit.
I'm telling you that you can for real just walk away from your device and whatever ego charged anger you've got building here will fade in like 15 minutes tops. This is not a healthy response to having a misunderstanding on an obscure message board.
You're a real live wire aren't ya lol
Just don't like seeing comrades getting all stressed about the internet. My suggestions were sincere advice.
I am when people decide to be annoying. I can have a back and forth with someone without you feeling the need to pretend this is some major issue.
The only thing that has happened here is you misunderstood Cowbee and have proceeded to talk past them for several exchanges while refusing to acknowledge the misunderstanding.
Maybe take a look back at this thread in its entirety a few days from now when you've cooled off to try to understand why this has all gone down the way it has.
What else would you call repeatedly misframing what a comrade is saying? We are both presumably communists, and we've both read the literature. If I am telling you that I never once said Marx thought revolution was only possible in the west, and you continue to quadruple-down on that, what possibly could be your goal?
Yes, we indeed had a minor back-and-forth, yet you can't for some reason admit to misunderstanding my original claim, no matter how much I explain that to you. Now that you're getting called out on it, you retreat to insult.
lol ok