Understanding the Dictatorship of the Proletariat: The Canadian Left and the Moment of Socialist Possibility in 1919
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Abstract
The Canadian labour revolt was about more than wages and working conditions. The year 1919 was also a moment of socialist possibility in which the Russian Revolution and the influence of Marx and Engels fuelled the revolutionary intent of a radicalizing Canadian working class. The idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat, long since lost in the shadow of Stalin’s terror, fuelled this moment of socialist possibility. The longing for a workers’ state was a nation-wide phenomenon, but it manifested itself more deeply and broadly in western Canada than in the east. West of the Great Lakes, the concept of the dictatorship of the proletariat was hotly debated in the pages of socialist papers and in the halls of the labour movement. Knowledge of the debate concerning the dictatorship of the proletariat provides a more complete understanding of the labour revolt of 1919 and its legacy for Canadian history and the international left. Resume La revolte de la main-d’œuvre canadienne etait bien plus que pour les salaires et les conditions de travail. L’annee 1919 etait aussi un moment de possibilite socialiste dans laquelle la Revolution russe et l’influence de Marx et Engels ont alimente l’intention revolutionnaire d’une classe ouvriere canadienne radicalisee. L’idee de la dictature du proletariat, perdue depuis longtemps dans l’ombre de la terreur de Stalin, a alimente ce moment de possibilite socialiste. Le desir d’avoir un Etat des travailleurs etait un phenomene d’un bout a l’autre du pays, mais il s’est manifeste plus profondement et d’une plus grande envergure dans l’ouest du Canada que dans l’est. A l’ouest des Grands Lacs, le concept de la dictature du proletariat faisait l’objet de debats passionnes dans les pages de journaux socialistes et dans les salles de reunions du mouvement syndical. La connaissance de debats a l’egard de la dictature du proletariat aide a clarifier de facon plus complete la revolte de la main-d’œuvre de 1919 et son heritage pour l’histoire canadienne et la gauche internationale.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
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