1. Introduction
"Socialism is man's positive self-consciousness."
K. Marx. Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts (1844).
At 3.00 a.m. on November 4, 1956, fifteen Russian armored divisions comprising 6,000 tanks massed at key points in Hungary to make final preparations for their second assault on a relatively defenseless people. The first assault, little more than a week earlier, had been a confused affair. Moscow pretended not to have been consulted. Hungarians had not been expected to fight the tanks almost with their bare hands. Russian soldiers had not been expected to go over to the side of the Hungarian workers in such numbers. This time, there were to be no mistakes. At 4.00 a.m. the tanks went in.
... (From: TheAnarchistLibrary.org.)
