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"Soviet elections were true workers' democracy!" (lemmy.world)
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[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 54 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Soviets as originally created were actually pretty based. Unfortunately the Bolsheviks crushed them about 5 minutes into their reign the moment they stopped being useful.

[–] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 30 points 1 day ago

As Kropotkin wrote to Lenin in 1920

It would seem that the soviets should have served precisely this function of creating an organisation from below. But Russia has already become a Soviet Republic only in name. The influx and taking over of the people by the ‘party’, that’s is, predominantly the newcomers (the ideological communists are more in the urban centres), has already destroyed the influences and constructive energy of this promising institution – the soviets. At present, it is the party committees, not the soviets, who rule in Russia. And their organization suffers from the defects of bureaucratic organisation.

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All power to the Soviets down with the Bolsheviks.