Writing an introduction for a new edition of Régis Debray’s Conversations with Allende (@VersoBooks). Provocative and prescient. Lots to learn in terms of strategies for political action and the traps of representative democracy and its cult of bourgeois legality.
@N3weis "What the worker and peasant wanted--'bread, peace and land'--was unattainable within the framework of Kerensky’s bourgeois republic." (Gérard Chaliand)
It is WWI. The provisional government could not deliver peace because it was a war government. From Lenin's own explanation:
@bucephalus424 The reverse is true since Stalin emphasized urban workers and downplayed agrarian revolution. Instead, the CPC recruited "not only the peasants," but also "the poor and unemployed in both town and countryside, who were used in rebellions throughout the history of China"