The Correctness of the Revolutionary-War Option in the Brest Debate
Comrades — when it came to the question of Brest-Litovsk in early 1918, it wasn't a tactical disagreement about space or a short-term calculation about men and bullets. It was the irrevocable theoretical divide for the new Revolutionary Dictatorship of the Proletariat: whether the dictatorship was to be conceived and felt as the instrument of the international class struggle — whose rationality is to carry the…