Mason

Talk about a recipe for disaster.

Talk about a recipe for disaster.

Which only provoked more peasant revolts.

Which only provoked more peasant revolts.

But the damage was already done.

But the damage was already done.

It's starting to feel like a horror movie where the monster is not some external threat, but the revolution itself.

It's starting to feel like a horror movie where the monster is not some external threat, but the revolution itself.

It's like this inherent tendency toward authoritarianism.

It's like this inherent tendency toward authoritarianism.

Daked into the very DNA of the Marxist state as Lenin envisioned it.

Daked into the very DNA of the Marxist state as Lenin envisioned it.

But hold on a sec. Didn't the Bolsheviks actually abolish the death penalty initially?

But hold on a sec. Didn't the Bolsheviks actually abolish the death penalty initially?

So how do we square that with this whole idea of them being obsessed with violence and terror?

So how do we square that with this whole idea of them being obsessed with violence and terror?

He doesn't shy away from these seemingly contradictory details.

He doesn't shy away from these seemingly contradictory details.

Okay, I'm intrigued. So how does he explain that whole death penalty thing?

Okay, I'm intrigued. So how does he explain that whole death penalty thing?