New Kickstarter Project: “Congratulations! You Have Overthrown the Government of the United States of America”

Ted Rall wants to write a book on starting a revolution in the USA through a New Kickstarter Project: “Congratulations! You Have Overthrown the Government of the United States of America”.

I am a bit doubtful that anyone could write a prescription for a revolution given the experiences of the Bolshevik Party during the February Revolution when the party found itself way behind the mood of the people. This was a party who had studied the 1905 Revolution, the Paris Commune, and other revolutions. And they could not keep up with the people.

The study of revolutions held the party in good stead through the counter-revolutionary attacks in the middle of 1917. And they were able to prepare the people for a successful Communist revolution in November 1917.

It was only in the consummation of the revolution that the intense study was useful, not in setting the process going.