num_pages: 0
description: The Russian Revolution was the greatest step forward in history. The working class though a minority led all oppressed and exploited people in smashing the Tsarist dictatorship. Taking state power through their Soviets (councils) the armed workers overthrew landlordism and capitalism laying the first foundations for a state owned and planned economy.Tragically the workers' democracy established in October 1917 became isolated and was later destroyed by the rise of Stalinist dictatorship. The way to genuine socialism has been barred by a new bureaucratic elite.Nevertheless the Russian Revolution itself remains a lighthouse to the black working class of World and to struggling workers and youth everywhere. Seventy years on its lessons are no less vital for us today.
language: None
title: Marxism and Revisionism
publisher: None