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Lenin, ''Collected Works'', Volume 22, pp.355-356 | Lenin, ''Collected Works'', Volume 22, pp.355-356 | ||
To imagine that social revolution is conceivable<br> without revolts by small | To imagine that social revolution is conceivable<br> without revolts by small nationsin the colonies and in Europe,<br> without revolutionary outbursts by a section of the petty bourgeoisie with all its prejudices, <br>without a movement of the politically non-conscious proletarian and semi-proletarian masses<br> against oppression by the landowners, the church, and the monarchy, against national oppression, etc.<br>-to imagine all this is to repudiate social revolution. <br>So one army lines up in one place and says, “We are for socialism”, <br>and another, somewhere else and says, “We are for imperialism”, and that will he a social revolution!<br> | ||
Only those who hold such a ridiculously pedantic view could vilify the Irish rebellion<br> by calling it a “putsch”.<br> Whoever expects a “pure” social revolution will never live to see it. <br>Such a person pays lip-service to revolution without understanding what revolution is.<br> | Only those who hold such a ridiculously pedantic view could vilify the Irish rebellion<br> by calling it a “putsch”.<br> Whoever expects a “pure” social revolution will never live to see it. <br>Such a person pays lip-service to revolution without understanding what revolution is.<br> | ||
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Lenin, Collected Works, Volume 22, pp.355-356
To imagine that social revolution is conceivable
without revolts by small nationsin the colonies and in Europe,
without revolutionary outbursts by a section of the petty bourgeoisie with all its prejudices,
without a movement of the politically non-conscious proletarian and semi-proletarian masses
against oppression by the landowners, the church, and the monarchy, against national oppression, etc.
-to imagine all this is to repudiate social revolution.
So one army lines up in one place and says, “We are for socialism”,
and another, somewhere else and says, “We are for imperialism”, and that will he a social revolution!
Only those who hold such a ridiculously pedantic view could vilify the Irish rebellion
by calling it a “putsch”.
Whoever expects a “pure” social revolution will never live to see it.
Such a person pays lip-service to revolution without understanding what revolution is.