RE: [Marxism] Marxism-list: Lenin and Trotsky experts failed challenge

[Alan Bradley <alanb1000@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree that this exercise in quotemongering is a
silly waste of time. However, here are some quotes
from Lenin:

Fourth Anniversary of the October Revolution
Written: 14 October, 1921
http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1921/oct/14.htm

"The direct and immediate object of the revolution in
Russia was a bourgeois-democratic one, namely, to
destroy the survivals of medievalism and sweep them
away completely, to purge Russia of this barbarism, of
this shame, and to remove this immense obstacle to all
culture and progress in our country.

And we can justifiably pride ourselves on having
carried out that purge with greater determination and
much more rapidly, boldly and successfully, and, from
the point of view of its effect on the masses, much
more widely and deeply, than the great French
Revolution over one hundred and twenty-five years
ago."

"The bourgeois-democratic content of the revolution
means that the social relations (system, institutions)
of the country are purged of medievalism, serfdom,
feudalism.

What were the chief manifestations, survivals,
remnants of serfdom in Russia up to 1917? The
monarchy, the system of social estates, landed
proprietorship and land tenure, the status of women,
religion, and national oppression." 

And so on.

Of course, being Lenin, this has some really nifty
invective:
"Those poltroons, gas-bags, vainglorious Narcissuses
and petty Hamlets brandished their wooden swords?but
did not even destroy the monarchy! We cleansed out all
that monarchist muck as nobody had ever done
before..."

To put it simply: not only did Lenin understand the
essence of Marxism - he put it into practice!

And Steve Masterson is simply brandishing a wooden
sword at him.

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