Two things:
1) If I were trying to sabotage any momentum coming out of this, I'd direct you away from the election and into, I cannot believe this, building a parallel government
2) An authoritarian regime will just dismantle this, and probably shoot you, if it comes near challenging them
Or, again (I can't believe I have to keep saying this) just WRITE FANFICTION. Or just a plain old dystopian thriller, get this stuff out of your system. You'll have more fun!
I mean, I'd never heard the phrase "mutual aid" either until Covid, and once I saw who the people throwing the phrase around were I knew it was not going to be a useful concept. In my day we just called it "helping people".
And hey, I'm a Mike Duncan guy! I should know my Russian Revolution trivia. Just didn't remember. And damn, I can't imagine idealizing ANY of it. Just a constant parade of horrors.
To be fair, this is certainly not all the Bolsheviks' fault! World War I sucked! The Tsarist regime sucked! Living in Russia has sucked for most of history! For heaven's sake don't compare anything in your own country to THAT place and time.
I saw that and thought it was the dumbest idea I've seen all day. I hadn't thought of it possibly having a nefarious purpose but that's a failure of my imagination
