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4 timestamped hits 1 source reading 2 extracted notes Aliases: october-revolutions

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October Revolution

Jiang says the Bolsheviks were an extreme minority faction that seized power and won only 23 percent of the popular vote after the October Revolution.

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Historical claim about 1917 inside the 2026-01-29 lecture.

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Jiang says the Bolsheviks were an extreme minority faction that seized power and won only 23 percent of the popular vote after the October Revolution.

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diagnosis

He says the October Revolution was a wild gamble that worked because of capitalist greed, and once it worked it made communism seem possible elsewhere, including China.

Timestamped Evidence

Communism As Capitalism's Weapon

2026-01-29, day precision · Game Theory #8: Communist Specter

Transcript

"What the Communist Manifesto says is, yes, you are. Yeah, we're all part of this great conspiracy to conquer the world and establish communism,..."

Communism As Capitalism's Weapon

2026-01-29, day precision · Game Theory #8: Communist Specter

Transcript

"They launched the October Revolution. So basically they seized power for themselves. And then they have an election. As you can see from this..."

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Communism As Capitalism's Weapon

2026-01-29, day precision · claims

Reading

A source-grounded reading of Jiang's lecture on the false capitalism-communism dialectic: communism appears not as capitalism's opposite but as a weapon that clears away monarchy, religion, nationalism, democracy, and social democracy so capital can...

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