11.1 Why the Russian Revolution Failed: When Rich Kids do all the Socialism
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Why Didn't the Anarchists Take Off?
The Stilepen reforms were mostly a big failure on that front. The government did what governments often do, especially non-democratic governments who control the media. They lied. And then the market forces would turn the communist peasants into mom and pop small entrepreneurs. There was no going to the people anarchist movement, at least not a socialist anarchist movement,. In Spain you had anarchist missionaries going from village to village preaching their ideas.
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