The Spartacus Uprising Is a Weather Vein Telling Us Which Way the Winds Are Blowing

The spartacus uprising represents the extremely brief high water mark for the kind of european revolution the russian bolsheviks had long been counting on. The revolutionary narrative after world war one is that conservative forces, which now include moderate socialist parties like the german s p d or the british labor party, will forge a post war political and economic order that has no place for radical communist revolution. And we find the essential features of this new order defined by the victorious allies at the peace which are presently commencing in paris. They start on january eighteenth, 19 19, and which communist russia was pointedly excluded from.