William,
I don't think you are understanding my point.
During 1918 in Russia there wasn't just one desire, one vision, or one Left. 1918 was when the Cheka turned on the anarchist who had for the most part already saw that "All Power to the Soviets" was just a short lived joke of the new State. Bakunin called their s*&t decades earlier.
July 1918 was the time of the crushed Third Russian Revolt, thus my Fanya Baron comment, so sorry bud but to me it is way more complicated than that. It appears you can crawl out from one rock and still be under another. As is true of my own post I am sure.
Real threats to the State are always turned on from all sides. Kronstadt always has to be eliminated. Like in Spain. Look at Rojava now. Not without mistakes or violent crimes on every particular but the experiment there is what I think of when I think of comrades. Or Chiapas. Or actually some of ideas in the Permaculture/Resilience hub here to lesser degree of break. I "root" for Sanders/Warren types not because I settle for the silly binary that makes this thread so tedious. I think they are more likely to create an environment less hostile to something genuine. I think the monopolization of the means of violence by the State makes the idea of some violent seizure of power a nonsensical idea so guillotine jokes aside, I don't know what 1789 has to do with anything in my posts or ideas.
I am assuming you are including the State you live beneath in your explanation. The fact that the utopic dream it offers came on a spoon just after birth and that the individuals it sacrifices are often out of sight and sound hardly changes anything.
In Neither Victims Nor Executioners, Camus writing against both these States said something he could have wrote today in defense of all those who say f*&k your binary, a another world is possible and it isn't Capitalist. Marxist or anything that plays nice with the species-ist grind we call civilization. Unfortunately the Plague that trying to get its Juggernaut on in the changing room on the Hill needs seeing to in the immediate.
"To reply once more and finally to the accusation of Utopia: for us, the choice is simple - Utopia or the war now being prepared by antiquated modes of thought.... Skeptical though we are (and as I am), realism forces us to this Utopian alternative. When our Utopia has become part of history, as with many others of like kind, humanity will find themselves unable to conceive reality without it. For History is simply humanity's desperate effort to give body to its most clairvoyant dreams." Camus
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