Click here to access article by Alice Slater from Defend Democracy Press.
Slater doesn't even begin to explain how and why the capitalist ruling classes have forbidden any serious attempt to draw the right lessons from this horrendous event and all other events since then.
The extensive history of major political events since the Russian Revolution has encompassed military invasions, CIA subversive actions (including the "Color Revolutions"), infiltration of media corporations, educational institutions to obliterate the true history since this revolution, etc. She focuses on only one dramatic event. Since the end of WWII the US Empire engaged in one of history's worst crime of mind altering accomplishments motivated by capitalist ruling classes to preserve their system from any good examples that the vast majority of the Earth's people might create. One of the results was the distortion of socialism.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 shocked the capitalist ruling classes all over the globe. (I covered this in a series of posts in October and November 2017 commemorating the hundredth anniversary. Type in "Russian Revolution" in any of my search engines scattered across my weblog.) This decisive event of the 20th century established the first government that banned any significant private ownership of the economy. (Only small family-run businesses were permitted.)
Since that time capitalist ruling classes have fought obsessively to crush this economic arrangement and to prevent it from spreading. (See this and this.) The British led the efforts, along with at least 13 other nations, after the Revolution to militarily destroy it. (Yes, the USA participated.) The extensive capitalist ruling classes efforts did not destroy the Soviet Union, but they succeeded in distorting much of the fabric of Russian socialism which led to its collapse in 1990, and have largely prevented the establishment of socialist governments elsewhere in the world. Cuba is hanging on by a thread, and Venezuela's efforts are being threatened. In my opinion, China's rule by the Communist Party with its substantial capitalist sector has still to prove itself.
The history of this sordid, long series of events has been carefully and successfully hidden from the American people. Since then, one of history's most significant event has been rewritten by well paid historians and others employed by Western media and entertainment corporations. This largely successful propaganda and indoctrination effort has been overwhelmingly successful. Slater focuses on only one horrendous event in this long and complex history.
In these dreadful current times, we see the rise of major countries like Russia, China, and Iran, which are pursing a multilateral world, are threatening the dominance of the US/Anglo/Zionist Empire which replaced the overtly fascist empires of Germany, Japan, and Italy in WWII.
