• Cowbee [he/him]
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    55 months ago

    Took advantage of a wildly unpopular government during WWI to hold a revolution, taking the Winter Palace.

    It wasn’t just a random strike and coup, but a revolutionary movement backed by a mass of workers.

      • Cowbee [he/him]
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        55 months ago

        A coup is a revolutionary movement with mass support? Are all revolutions coups?

        • @[email protected]
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          -45 months ago

          A coup is the violent overthrow of a government, so if the revolution is violent, yeah.

          • Cowbee [he/him]
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            55 months ago

            That’s a bit goofy, but then I will amend the original statement with clarity: revolutionaries do not necessarily support random individual movements, but mass revolutionary action among the workers.