Republican socialism FAQ

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Karl Marx explained that in order for the socialist revolution to be workable in a country it has to have an educated and fairly well off working class. This is why the soviet system was bound to failure from the outset; its working class were mainly made up of peasants who didn't have the education to implement a social revolution. Socialism is more likely-in the words of Marx-to be achievable in modern capitalist countries like the USA, Germany, France and Id add to this Ireland (which is a modern capitalist country now).

Before you start saying Marx explained something you might want to actually read Marx, a history book to boot. Marx did not state that for a socialist revolution to occur their must be an ‘educated and fairly well’ working class. You should read Marx’s Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League.

Russian workers were not ‘peasants’, by definition peasants are not workers. The majority of revolutionaries were agricultural workers, followed by industrial workers, and lastly poor peasants. However, despite being the majority agricultural workers were not the vanguard of the movement. The industrial workers held the position of vanguard.


A revolution does not have to be violent; if the majority of the people want change there is nothing they can do to stop that. The capitalists will however try to stop any change that will effect there power structure, they will step in the form of the USA's “war on terror” or some other lie to the people. If this is the case we must fight for what is right and just!

Actually, when you consider that capitalists hold in their possession the whole state apparatus, including the military, a revolution is necessarily violent. Not to mention that the capitalists are in possession of ideological state apparatuses as well.

The article contains a lot of spelling mistakes and grammar issues. I would also change the font from green 16pt to black 12pt. Also I would try to back up your assertions with quotations of Marx. You may even want to quote Connolly, Lenin, and Trotsky. Lenin was purportedly quite inspired by Connolly.