No.413591
Post the achievements of forgotten leftist badasses here. I'll start:
<Alexander Parvus (1867-1924)
>Born in the Russian Empire, already involved in illegal socialist agitation by age 16
>Forced into exile to Switzerland at age 19
>Studies the immortal science of scientific socialism under Plekhanov but rejects joining the Russian party, decides to participate in the international focal point of socialist theory and practice, the German SPD, instead
>Was THE FIRST to call out Bernstein's opportunism starting in 1895, starts to win supporters from the Russian Empire including Lenin, Trotsky, and Rosa Luxemburg
>Recognized that the proletariat had to lead the coming Russian Revolution long before Lenin or Trotsky
>Called for political Mass Strikes long before Luxemburg
>Took part in the Russian Revolution of 1905, was the "power behind the throne" while Trotsky was leader of the Petersburg Soviet
>Locked in the Peter and Paul fortress by the Tsarist state for his role in the revolution - broke out and escaped back to Germany
>Writes one of the three main book-length classical Marxist analyses of imperialism, now unfortunately untranslated and forgotten
>Moves to Turkey, immediately sought as an advisor to the Young Turks
>Follows his Party, Starts his Business: becomes a multimillionaire capitalist from insider trading to own the rablibs
>When the World War breaks out, Parvus stands with the German Empire in its noble struggle against British Imperialism, thereby creating a multipolar world ripe for revolution
>Becomes a German intelligence asset striving to foment revolution in the Russian Empire, may have been the one who convinced them to let Lenin back in on the sealed train
>His name makes Russian and Turkish conspiracy theorists seethe to this very day
>Lounged around in his mansion spending his fortune on hookers and donations to foreign revolutionary causes.
>Considered himself a revolutionary Marxist to the end of his days in 1924
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No.413605
>As the depth of Parvus' arrangements with the Imperial Government became known, the revelations ruined relations with the rest of the revolutionary network including Rosa Luxemburg and other German socialists who were engaging in the subversion of the German Empire. Despite evidence showing that Parvus had never betrayed German socialists to the authorities, his credibility among the revolutionary elite went sour.
>As his political activity waned, the war ground to a halt, and he refused to help the new German authorities smash the Spartacist uprising, retreating to a German island near Berlin. Despite his failure to help the new Weimar Republic he was well provided for, living in a well-appointed 32-room mansion in Berlin's Peacock Island. He later published his memoirs from this residence.
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No.413608
>>413591>>413605Parvus was too based.
Any books on the guy?
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No.413615
The 18 yo Scot that went to Spain wearung a kilt and carrying explosives to blow up Franco. Got arrested and sentenced to death and the Francoids were really pissed because they though he was trans. Franco died a few years later and he was released.
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No.413623
>>413608The Merchant of Revolution is his sole biography and what I wrote the OP from. The authors aren't communists and it's a definite example of "cold war historiography", but Parvus' wild life story can hold up by itself. There's a whopping 71MB PDF on libgen if you want to read it, don't want to attach it because it might crash the site lol.
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No.413686
Kamo was the craziest motherfucker in the Bolsheviks. His life was legitimately like a movie. He was basically the bank robber guy that worked with Stalin and helped Lenin fund the party early on. This is a guy who escaped prison, then got caught again, then got the death penalty, then got out anyway again. A guy who ripped somebody's heart out with a knife in front of others because the victim was a White Army informant. A guy who faked being mentally ill for numerous years so he wouldn't get the death penalty in his first prison stint. A guy who was leaching off women he was fucking for years because he had no real home.