“History Doesn't Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes” – Mark Twain.
.....sometimes it does repeat.
1. What we are witnessing today is a civil war in the Democrat Party between the establishment Democrats, the moderates, and the Radical Communist Violent element. The former wishes to jettison the insane woke, open border, violent Far Left agenda, with the view that being openly communist will not play well in a national election.
2. The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were the two main factions of the party which led to the Russian Revolution. Both groups subscribed to Marxism, but but they diverged on the methods that they believed would lead to world-wide socialism.
3. The Bolsheviks had a more tightly disciplined group of radical revolutionaries. The Mensheviks favored a more inclusive democratic party with more opinions allowed.
4. The Bolshevikss believed in a more radical and violent revolution to achieve socialism, sans any capitalism, with the central aim of abolishing private property at any cost (genocide). Mensheviks believed in a more gradual, political approach, based on co-opting the political process.....that included capitalism (crony capitalism).
One need be ignorant of history to miss the comparison with the war in the Democrat Party today.
5.Now the Bolsheviks have taken over the party.
About half of the Party’s supporter always came from the interchangeable terms socialist/communist/Progressive/ etc. Professor Kengor said this, describing the Menshevik element:
"The progressive left, and the liberal left, while not themselves communists, share many of the same sympathies, such of redistribution of wealth, and worker’s rights, nationalizations of industry, etc, but are not quite as far left as the communists, and would not go to the same lengths as the communists to achieve their goals. This does not mean, though, that the help of these dupes is not necessary in order for the communists to achieve victory. Even at their peak, in the ‘30’s, the Communist Party of the United States never had more than 100 thousand members: so deception of the ‘dupes’ was critical. "
Dr. Paul Kengor, Hoover Institution, Stanford “DUPES: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century
.....sometimes it does repeat.
1. What we are witnessing today is a civil war in the Democrat Party between the establishment Democrats, the moderates, and the Radical Communist Violent element. The former wishes to jettison the insane woke, open border, violent Far Left agenda, with the view that being openly communist will not play well in a national election.
2. The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks were the two main factions of the party which led to the Russian Revolution. Both groups subscribed to Marxism, but but they diverged on the methods that they believed would lead to world-wide socialism.
3. The Bolsheviks had a more tightly disciplined group of radical revolutionaries. The Mensheviks favored a more inclusive democratic party with more opinions allowed.
4. The Bolshevikss believed in a more radical and violent revolution to achieve socialism, sans any capitalism, with the central aim of abolishing private property at any cost (genocide). Mensheviks believed in a more gradual, political approach, based on co-opting the political process.....that included capitalism (crony capitalism).
One need be ignorant of history to miss the comparison with the war in the Democrat Party today.
5.Now the Bolsheviks have taken over the party.
About half of the Party’s supporter always came from the interchangeable terms socialist/communist/Progressive/ etc. Professor Kengor said this, describing the Menshevik element:
"The progressive left, and the liberal left, while not themselves communists, share many of the same sympathies, such of redistribution of wealth, and worker’s rights, nationalizations of industry, etc, but are not quite as far left as the communists, and would not go to the same lengths as the communists to achieve their goals. This does not mean, though, that the help of these dupes is not necessary in order for the communists to achieve victory. Even at their peak, in the ‘30’s, the Communist Party of the United States never had more than 100 thousand members: so deception of the ‘dupes’ was critical. "
Dr. Paul Kengor, Hoover Institution, Stanford “DUPES: How America's Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century
