It is for this reason that revolutions, even within me semi-colontal stales have been victorious first in those countries with the weakest ruling classes of all - for example in Indochina or the countries of the Caribbean and Central Alicica rather than in the more developed states of Latin America This development of victories of the world struggle for socialism most easily through the 'weak links' of capitalist system greater difficulties of victory in the advanced capitalist countries tact one of the chief lessons drawn from the Russian Revolution by The reason the socialist revolution broke out first in Russia was not that the working Russia was stronger than in more advanced capitalist states - on the contrary it was weaker than in a country such as Germany, Britain or the United States.
The reason that the revolution broke out first in Russia was that the Russian ruling class was far weaker that the more advanced capitalist states.
As Lenin wrote in April 1918, 'a backward country can easily because its adversary has become rotbecause its bourgeoisie ..It will be different orcallscu Western Europe; there it will be immeasurably more difficult to begin. Culture In fact a contradictory process takes The fact that states such as Russia — and later China, Vietnam, or were far more backward economically, with far weaker ruling classes, than in the advanced capitalist states made it far easier to conquer tere lan in the advancea capitalist countries.
But at the same time such economic backwardness made the actual building of socialism far more difficult.
Socialist Action 13 January 1984