Yup, it was a shitshow. If you’re a socialist, it’s good to study, but maybe in the same spirit as bourgeois revolutionaries might have studied the wreckage of the French Revolution. Or, you know, in the same spirit as Marx and Engels reflecting on the failures of 1848 (really, quite good, much better and more useful than their opening salvos in the 1840’s everybody loves to read).
Yup, it was a shitshow. If you’re a socialist, it’s good to study, but maybe in the same spirit as bourgeois revolutionaries might have studied the wreckage of the French Revolution. Or, you know, in the same spirit as Marx and Engels reflecting on the failures of 1848 (really, quite good, much better and more useful than their opening salvos in the 1840’s everybody loves to read).