What was the most decisive moment in the last century that the left failed to properly capitalize on that could have ushered in a socialist world order?
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Camden Lewis
German Revolution and Soviet-Polish War. Had either succeeded we would've been living in full communism already
Kayden Gonzalez
Every day someone doesn't attempt to rally the people is another day lost.
Adam Rodriguez
Well, I wouldn't say that the left has "failed to capitalize" on these events. In both cases communist forces waged an assault, and in both cases they were unsuccessful.
I think a main event would have been the potential revolution in Greece. If the KKE didn't decide to halt revolutionary efforts, which was a mistake of Stalin, then Greece would have 100% turned socialist, which would have enabled the Eastern Bloc to have an ice-free port in the mediterranean without having to rely on the NATO member Turkey allowing them passage through the Sea of Marmara. Further pressure could have been applies to Yugoslavia not to stay neutral and the oil tanker industry in Greece would have been a huge economic advantage.
That's just something off the top of my head.
Colton Stewart
May '68 in France. If the PCF hadn't been busy being euro"communist" sell-outs and actually engaged with the students and workers in revolt, we'd have a sixth French republic that deserves the name.
Jace Green
Is that a brick with a piece of paper on top?
Henry Bell
The odd thing is Society of the Spectacle is nowhere near that long that it would justify such a cover.
Gabriel Rodriguez
Still it makes for a good joke when someone says "Hit the books."
Fuck now I really wanna see a fight where it ends by one guy telling the other "Hey jackass read a book!" and he pulls out a block with Das Kapital on the cover and clocks the other guy across the face.
Levi Richardson
One could name a hundred separate events really.
However I think these are the most damning:
1) The failure of the socialist states of the time to support the Allende government in Chile or at-least adopt its 'Cybersyn' project.
This made the path towards further market liberalisations, rather then towards computer assisted central planning a certainty.
Dooming the socialist states of the 20th century to either de-jure or de-facto capitalist restoration.
2) The Soviets supporting the expulsion of the Germans from eastern Europe rather then making such territories a part of the GDR.
From the start the GDR was clearly the most viable of the eastern bloc states (I would argue more viable then the USSR itself).
Had the Soviets supported the established German populations in the east and given the GDR control over greater Prussia, the GDR may have been in a position to weather the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and remain a bastion of socialism to this very day.
Possibly even maintaining its own sphere of socialist nations.
3) The failure of the Storozhevoy.
Had the Storozhevoy been successful in its mission, it could had provoked a coup/revolution of actual M-Ls within the USSR.
This would have effectively ended revisionism within the USSR in 1971 and potentially the subsequent collapse of the USSR and the Eastern Bloc.
4) The Brisbane general strike of 1912 (alittle over a hundred years ago admittedly).
Much like similar such workers actions that it was roughly contemporary with (such as the Limerick Soviet), this general strike resulted in the creation of a workers government organised by the trade unions that had effective control over the economy of the striking city.
Unlike similar such grand strikes (again, such as the Limerick Soviet) Australia was a very remote part of the world and far from the concerns of any foreign powers that may want to intervene against the workers.
Had the other unions of Australia followed suit and expanded the local general strike into a national strike (along with the creation of a national workers government); The prevailing socialist ideology of the 20th century could easily have been Syndicalism born from Brisbane rather then Leninism born from St Petersburg.
Ryder Sanders
Eternal 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧angloids🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 had plenty of opportunities after WW2 up until and including Thotcher era, but no one is blaming them, why is that?