Tachanka [comrade/them]

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Cake day: October 31st, 2022

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  • Luthen makes me think of Nechayev more than Lenin. Especially his speech to Lonny (idk how to spell it) in the elevator about sacrificing everything including your humanity for revolution. It reminds me of Nechayev’s catechism

    As for Andor himself, he doesn’t really strike me as Stalin-like. Andor dies young. Stalin died old. Andor never held any kind of political power in a government, Stalin did. The politics of the rebels in Star Wars strike me as more like bourgeois liberalism than Communism. They’re trying to restore a Republic (that confusingly has a princess and an order of quasi-religious knights, which sounds more feudal) that has “decayed” into an empire. But really a Republic can be an empire anyway. See America.

    There’s clearly some Communist influence in the writing and Nemik’s hat looks very much like a budenovka, but the parallels to the October revolution are few and far between I think.


  • i want to be pedantic for some reason

    the tsar abdicated, and went into house arrest while still under the february 1917 revolution, which was not really communist. the communists overthrew the liberal provisional government in october 1917. america for example was OK with the february revolution, but not the october, because the communists of the october revolution wanted to pull out of WW1 against the germans, but the february revolution did not.