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    It is not the case that The Bolshevik program must be rejected despite the desirability of socialism

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    • 1.The Bolshevik program causes pointless suffering
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    • 2.Utilitarian and consequentialist reasoning requires rejecting policies that cause pointless suffering
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Vanguard party structures concentrate power in ways that structurally preclude the democratic accountability necessary for socialist goals.
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    • 2.Rosa Luxemburg's critique of Bolshevism demonstrates that suppressing soviets and free press corrupts socialist ends from within the means chosen.
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    • 3.A socialism achieved through permanent terror cannot instantiate the cooperative social relations that constitute socialism's normative core.
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    • 1.Mill's harm principle and Russell's own liberal socialism require that political transformation preserve expressive and associative freedoms as non-negotiable constraints.
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    • 2.Instrumental reasoning that sacrifices civil liberties for socialist ends commits the 'galaxy-brained' consequentialist error of discounting near-certain present harms for speculative future gains.
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