You're right in saying that the Bolsheviks were committed to violence. However, it's the sheer scale of Bolshevik violence that is extraordinary and unexpected. For example, by the time Lenin died at the beginning of 1924, the Bolsheviks had slaughtered 11 million people - 5 million in the civil war, 6 million in the famine. That scale o…
You're right in saying that the Bolsheviks were committed to violence. However, it's the sheer scale of Bolshevik violence that is extraordinary and unexpected. For example, by the time Lenin died at the beginning of 1924, the Bolsheviks had slaughtered 11 million people - 5 million in the civil war, 6 million in the famine. That scale of mass-murder was made necessary by the absolute failure of the Russian Marxists to create the utopia they thought they could magic into existence. The contemporary wokusts will go down the same path for the same reasons.
The logic is there, I agree. The will to do so I believe is lacking, and the pushback will not strengthen their resolve, it will collapse it. That is the difference between the woke and the true revolutionary. The woke will whine rather than fight, believing that their priestly authority is supposed to bend the will of all, and they lack the warrior mentality that cares less about moral authority.
I think you are right if the wokists are a bottom up movement. If it is too down, ie a way for politicians to amass more power, then I might expect the pushback to be fierce as it will come from those with the capacity to inflict violence through others.
In that vein, I wouldn’t be surprised to find that if Wokism really alienated enough of the American left such that support was weakening, the Woke would get pressured into shutting up and purged if they didn’t. Sort of the modern version of the Night of Long Knives, if not so dramatic. Probably just a half dozen suicides, car accidents and drug overdoses over a month or so, till people got the message.
You're right in saying that the Bolsheviks were committed to violence. However, it's the sheer scale of Bolshevik violence that is extraordinary and unexpected. For example, by the time Lenin died at the beginning of 1924, the Bolsheviks had slaughtered 11 million people - 5 million in the civil war, 6 million in the famine. That scale of mass-murder was made necessary by the absolute failure of the Russian Marxists to create the utopia they thought they could magic into existence. The contemporary wokusts will go down the same path for the same reasons.
The logic is there, I agree. The will to do so I believe is lacking, and the pushback will not strengthen their resolve, it will collapse it. That is the difference between the woke and the true revolutionary. The woke will whine rather than fight, believing that their priestly authority is supposed to bend the will of all, and they lack the warrior mentality that cares less about moral authority.
I think you are right if the wokists are a bottom up movement. If it is too down, ie a way for politicians to amass more power, then I might expect the pushback to be fierce as it will come from those with the capacity to inflict violence through others.
In that vein, I wouldn’t be surprised to find that if Wokism really alienated enough of the American left such that support was weakening, the Woke would get pressured into shutting up and purged if they didn’t. Sort of the modern version of the Night of Long Knives, if not so dramatic. Probably just a half dozen suicides, car accidents and drug overdoses over a month or so, till people got the message.