by Paul Cudenec We have seen how the Bolsheviks in Russia repressed the grassroots revolutionary movement and imposed a centralised authoritarian regime that declared war on small farmers and hitherto independent individuals, turning most of the population into powerless slaves to a giant industrial machine. We have also learned that they were funded and assisted … Continue reading The false red flag: a despotic dead end

by Paul Cudenec Anyone wishing to understand what lay behind the brutal political repression and totalitarian industrial slavery imposed by the Bolsheviks would do well to read the work of historian Antony C. Sutton, notably his book Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution. [73] He shows, with solid evidence, that the communist seizure of power … Continue reading The false red flag: a repugnant racket

by Paul Cudenec Leo Tolstoy, with his dreams of a free Russian peasantry, had realised before his death in 1910 that the communists aimed to launch an assault on traditional rural life. Having analysed Karl Marx's Capital and studied the new "scientific" socialism, he spoke out about what Pierre Thiesset calls the communists' "industrialised, urbanised … Continue reading The false red flag: industrial slavery

by Paul Cudenec An authentic mood of revolt had been swelling up in Russia for some time before 1917, with a previous attempted revolution in 1905-06 violently repressed by the tsarist regime. A great inspiration behind this mood was the back-to-the-land Christian anarchism of the revered Russian novelist and thinker Leo Tolstoy, [11] author of … Continue reading The false red flag: lies and repression

by Paul Cudenec I have always had a rather uneasy relationship with the "socialist" and "communist" left. On the one hand I have been deeply inspired by many thinkers and rebels loosely associated with this tradition, from John Ball of the peasants' revolt [1] and the legendary Robin Hood (robbing the rich to feed the … Continue reading The false red flag: pseudo-resistance