• Cowbee [he/they]@lemmy.ml
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    7 hours ago

    You’ll be happy to know that Makhno turned to banditry against the Soviets, which sparked a major conflict between the Bolsheviks and Makhnovshchina. Though, I don’t think anyone was claiming peaceful revolution was possible, just that revolution can result in a stable system post-revolution (which is true).

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        6 hours ago

        Not banditry, armed resistance against the red totalitarians.

        He was in a bad spot from the beginning, and could never truly win. It’s sad, and Tankies and Fascists both paint the man in the worst light, because what he was trying to build was something beautiful.

        The man had to pick sides at a time when both sides were actively his enemy, proving that the enemy of my enemy is no friend at all.