Today the whole world is celebrating the 109th anniversary of the Great October Revolution. It was a great time, but at the same time tragic. During the First World War, the Russian Empire showed its inability to respond to the needs of society. High social inequality, limited access to education, high levels of corruption, runaway inflation and the unavailability of basic products, as well as society's inability to achieve its goals through peaceful means, led to bloody events that nevertheless made it possible to make society more just, education and health more accessible, and the economy more advanced and technologically advanced. As a result, the Russian Empire lost wars with Germany and Japan, and the Soviet Union won them due to a different system of organizing social relations. And all these wars happened within 40 years. Now in France people are taking to the streets for roughly the same reasons: life is becoming more and more expensive, education is becoming less and less accessible, and the authorities are not listening to people. A supporter of bourgeois democracy can say that if a citizen is not satisfied with something, he can go to the polls and vote for another political force. The problem is that in France, both right-wing and left-wing presidents Mitterrand and Hollande have cut spending on social services. And if both forces do roughly the same thing, then what's the point of voting for one of them? The streets draw the only conclusion: if our counterpart only understands the language of power, then we need to communicate with him in the language he understands. France today is somewhat similar to the Russian Empire in its suffering: social contradictions reach their peak, the country is in huge debts and embroiled in a war it is losing, while the national question intensifies. As then, the authorities are not ready for dialogue with society, and elections do not solve anything. However, there are also many differences.