VII
“Comrade Bukharin is right, and he has
made a fine speech today, but he is confused about one issue. That issue comes in regards to the petty
bourgeois (the peasants). He says we can
look to the rest of Europe during the revolution, that we can look to the more
advanced countries’ working classes to help us through off the bourgeois yoke. But he mistakenly believes this help will
come now. The unfortunate reality of the
revolution is that we must begin it! The
world will not follow UNTIL we have succeeded in this country. And if we are to succeed we need to combine
the might of the proletariat and the petty bourgeoisies. We need their strength in the countryside,
and we need their strength in the army.
If they are with us, no one can be against us!” Kolya looked up dismissively at his old
friend Soso, standing there so proudly.
The great leader of the Bolsheviks while Lenin was in hiding.
It was the Sixth Party Congress in 1917,
and the stakes couldn’t be higher. Many
of the party were in hiding from earlier mistakes. Few had even made the journey to the party
congress this year. Kolya looked around
sadly. Perhaps his old friend was right
and now was the time to compromise. But
he couldn’t help but feel that by doing so, they would betray Marx, and the
theory to which he had committed his life.
And he couldn’t shake the feeling that by betraying Marx, the theory would
eventually betray them.
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