Revisiting Capital and the Revolution Against Capital

The Russian revolution in 1917 inaugurated a new world order marked by the promise of socialism that not only altered the future course of backward Russia but posed a serious challenge to capitalist hegemony across the world. This grand experiment, however, didn’t succeed in transcending the rule of capital, despite being able to create examples of real world alternatives to capitalism that captured the imagination of the working people of the world. The arguments that followed the defeat of the world’s largest ever social experiment have often been tainted by opinions not reasonably backed by substantive facts and insights, sometimes heavily loaded with disproportionate criticism of individuals, otherwise discussed in reference to\ a liberal framework where capital’s victory is viewed superficially as an upsurge against longstanding authoritarian rule. After hundred years the ideological predilections might have died down over time.