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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;robinjojo, post: 7313340, member: 110226&quot;]The irony, in a way, is that the founders of Communist theory were solidly middle class, including Marx and Engels.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>However, as Marx and Engels envisioned economic evolution, change would come in stages, starting with the rise of the bourgeoisie, followed by a bourgeoisie revolution (the Revolution of 1848).&nbsp; That would be followed by the rise of the industrial workers fueled by the Industrial Revolution.&nbsp; In the overall scheme of things that would be followed by a workers&#039; revolution.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>But, things don&#039;t always go according to the script. There was the 1917 Revolution, which was set against the brutality of Word War I.&nbsp; Russian workers, intellectuals, soldiers retreating from the brutal conditions of the front and peasants tied to the land for generations rose up to overthrow the autocratic Czar.&nbsp; The brief provisional government of Alexander Kerensky lasted only a couple of months.&nbsp; That government was overthrown in November, 1917, led, again by a very middle class individual, Lenin.&nbsp; After his death, Stalin followed and the repression really began in earnest.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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