The Place of the October Revolution in World History and Contemporary Politics By David North 13 November 2017 On the last day of 1917, Franz Mehring—the great socialist historian, journalist and theoretician, who had, along with Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, opposed the German Social Democratic Party’s vote for war credits in August 1914—appraised … Continue reading The Place of the October Revolution in World History and Contemporary Politics