Some Ideas on Socialism

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11. Speaking from this one Trotskyist perspective.......

I think that it's a matter of timing. How long does it take for the revolution to spread? The USSR might have been doomed from the failure of the German revolution in 1918-1920. IF it had spread to Germany, a highly industrialized western European country, the workers in those two countries could have had a chance for it to spread world-wide.

I think that one thing that influenced Marx and Engels was the clusters of uprisings that happened in 1848. I think that was their model for how a revolution spreads across national boundaries.

In today's world, IF revolutions happened within a few months of each other in several different countries, even if they weren't powers themselves, there would be the possibility of some sort of mutual support bloc developing for those countries giving them a little breathing room for it to spread to more places, including the bigger and militarily stronger countries. It would be the job of the vanguard proletariat in those stronger countries to attempt a check on the bourgeoisie RE: that bloc.

That's my opinion anyway.