Chris: What the Bolsheviks Saw | Siddhartha Deb pllqt.it/iybcQS What the Bolsheviks Saw | Siddhartha Deb “October, for an instant, brings a new kind of power,” Miéville writes. “Fleetingly, there is a shift towards workers’ control of production and the rights of peasants to the land. Equal rights for men and women in work and in marriage, the right to divorce, maternity support. The decriminalisation of homosexuality, one hundred years ago. Moves towards national self-determination. Free and universal education, the expansion of literacy.” It is sobering to reflect that a hundred years from that red October, those demands still strike us as revolutionary. - thebaffler.com socialism Send
