What Is Politics
@whatispolitics69·33.2K subscribers·53 videos
11.1 Why the Russian Revolution Failed: When Rich Kids do all the Socialism
Posted
March 21, 2023
Views
108,226
Likes
4,555
Comments
2,085
Engagement
March 21, 2023
108,226
4,555
2,085
6.14%
Every word spoken in this episode is indexed. Type any phrase to jump straight to the moment it was said.
Type any word or phrase that may have been spoken. Click a result to seek the player to that exact moment.
Try a name, a topic, or a quoted line
1:28:46Now PlayingThe leading actors of the Russian Revolutions of February and October 1917 sought to establish socialism: a deeply democratic economic and political system where the employee/employer relationship is abolished, and where workers control their workplaces, the means of production and the government via the “free association of the producers”.
Instead the revolutions resulted in the establishment of the Soviet Union: an authoritarian state where the government became the sole employer and the state controlled the workers instead of the other way around. This then became the model for “communist” countries around the world who sought to emulate the successes of the Soviet Union, namely industrialization, escaping western imperialism, opening up social mobility for peasants and workers.
Why did the Soviet Union fail at socialism?
What can we learn about this failure to apply to our political struggles in the present and future?
ALL MUSIC BY STARSIXNINE: starsixnine.bandcamp.com
*PLEASE* SHARE AND LET PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS SERIES!!
I purposefully don’t monetize my channel in order to spare you the annoying ads, and it takes me weeks to make these (this one took almost 4 months!), so please help if you can!
PATREON PER EPISODE DONATIONS
KO-FI ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS: ko-fi.com/whatispolitics
PAYPAL ONE TIME OR MONTHLY DONATIONS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
AUDIO PODCASTor search for “worbs” on your podcast app
tweeter: @worbsintowords
CHAPTERS
Peasants vs indigenous subsistence farmers
Peasants vs. the State
Sentinel Indexing in Progress
Metadata and chapters are available. Claim extraction for this episode is pending.
All video content is delivered via YouTube embedded players in accordance with the YouTube Terms of Service. Sentinel provides research tools that promote discovery and accountability across political media.
