So I heard that somebody shot Lenin and failed (thank god) and what happened was the Red Terror happened and many died as a result. Can I get some more details about this?
So I heard that somebody shot Lenin and failed (thank god) and what happened was the Red Terror happened and many died as a result. Can I get some more details about this?
You especially won’t hear about it from anarchists. They just go on and on about how M-Ls betrayed them and conveniently leave out that those anarchists literally allied with invading imperialists.
Also, terror has sadly been unavoidable as an instrument of war. That’s always been true for any conflict. Liberals exceptionalizing the red terror also conveniently never mention the atrocities and errors committed by all sides from their own revolutions and civil wars.
Currently they are even disavowing French revolutionary terror despite it was in their own interest and simp for Vendee. Nothing new, already Marx was noticing again and again how bourgeosise needs to be basically forced to participate in their own revolutions by proletariat and how they turn onto proletariat the moment they get slightest concessions from aristocracy. Lenin wrote ton of pages about Kadets doing exactly that.