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  • “The Vanguard” as you describe it was an ideological justification to describe any and all criticism of the ruling class (and yes, to me, the upper echelons of the USSR were a ruling class) as counterrevolutionary. “The most advanced of the working class” shredded the countries military leader shit on the eve of the second world war not because of existing coups, but out of paranoia. “The vanguard” in the end served only to preserve their own interests.

    “The people elected SRs or did not vote majority Bolshevik? What do they know, we are the vanguard, we know whats best, lets ignore the elections and abolish the soviets.”

    Thats why i dislike the concept of the Vanguard. Because never turned out the way it was promised and it never will.






  • I am currently doimg course on both of these topics.

    Yes, there is a continuum between these concepts, but there is a much better case for the idea that all ibero-romance languages are actually one language than for the “Chinese Macrolanguage”.

    Hakka for example is not mutually intelligible with any of the other branches of the family, yet it is still considered to be a dialect of Chinese. Why? Because it shares the script?

    The political reason, imho, far outweigh the linguistical reasons for considering Chinese to be a language rather than a family.