CORNWELL@IUBACS.BITNET (Rubbles? no, WRUBEL) (02/12/90)
A plausible assump[tion based on limited knowledge of Soviet
revolutionary history:
According to Marx, history inevitably progresses from feudalism
to capitalism to socialism to full Communism (you want chapter
and verse? Find another pedant!) I don't KNOW whether there was
a communist party in Russia--or anywhere else; remember all the
revolutionary parties in Germany at the time--before the
revolution, but with the minroity militants having to become
Bolshviks ("the majority") in order to win a power struggle with
the majority Mensheviks (the minority) it SEEMS entirely
plausible that the Bolshivks also seized the label Communist to
help them out in this powerstruggle. Obviously if Communism is a
higher stage of history than socialism, the Mensheviks, left
Social Revolutionaries, not to mention anarachists, etc HAD
BETTER give ground to Vlad and his pals....
If someone thinks I am VIOLENTLY distorting history, please flame
about it and I will go to the library and look oup more gory
details.
Dorene "Hey I don't write history I just report it" Cornwell