That revolutionary attempt seemed like it could’ve had long term success without the pitfalls of Marxist attempts had it survived, but it took about 80 years of slowly educating the populace on those ideas, creating alternative ferrier schools, and building up successful unions to prime them for that outcome, and the failure of the Russian revolution and it’s decent into authoritarian bureaucracy was relatively fresh on their minds.
I suspect in our current world, prefiguration is likely the best course of action, which attempts to slowly build up the society we want to live in within the skeleton of our existing one, and to then remain standing as the skeleton around it crumbles. Which would indicate that building up unions, worker owned coops, community mutual aid (ex, food not bombs, community gardens) is crucial to pushing society in the right direction.
Anarchists during the Spanish Civil War implemented one of the few positive revolutionary societies, but it was quashed after about a year due to the Soviets betraying them and Franco eventually destroying what was left.
That revolutionary attempt seemed like it could’ve had long term success without the pitfalls of Marxist attempts had it survived, but it took about 80 years of slowly educating the populace on those ideas, creating alternative ferrier schools, and building up successful unions to prime them for that outcome, and the failure of the Russian revolution and it’s decent into authoritarian bureaucracy was relatively fresh on their minds.
I suspect in our current world, prefiguration is likely the best course of action, which attempts to slowly build up the society we want to live in within the skeleton of our existing one, and to then remain standing as the skeleton around it crumbles. Which would indicate that building up unions, worker owned coops, community mutual aid (ex, food not bombs, community gardens) is crucial to pushing society in the right direction.