You can read a million works of marx and engels and lenin. But you won't be a 'genuine revolutionary' unless you put it into practice, organise and build the revolutionary vanguard
What about the elections to the All Russian Congress of Soviets? The Elections of the Peasants and Soldiers Soviets? Elections of all major city Soviets?
The constituent assembly was increasingly an irrelevance amidst the development of the revolution. It was second fiddle.
>Revolution occurs with the main promise of giving all power to the soviets.
>Comes to power and abolishes the constituent assembly and gives all power to the soviets in a bolshevik-Left SR coalition
Why is this presented as a horrible thing
Russia held an election a few weeks after Lenin seized power in 1917. Lenin's party finished a distant second.
Lenin then abolished the other parties and shut down the constituent assembly right after it convened.
Two of my all-time favorites: Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash. When they sat down together and recorded Girl from the North Country, it wasn’t just a duet… it was a moment in time.
@R0dchenko Leaving money on it is very wierd but like visiting marx's grave is something communists have done for ages, even Lenin did it following the RSDLP second congress