I already posted this George Plekhanov, Open Letter to the Petrograd Workers ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Kulaks&x=13&y=20#/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=George+Plekhanov&rh=n%3A266239%2Ck%3AGeorge+Plekhanov ) (28th October, 1917) > > > > > The reason the events of the last few days pain me so much is not because > I do not wish to see the cause of the working class triumph, but, on the > contrary, because with all the fibres of my being I wish for the triumph > of the workers. The class-conscious elements of our proletariat must ask > themselves the question: Is our proletariat ready to proclaim a > dictatorship? Everyone who has even a partial understanding as to what > economic conditions are necessary for the dictatorship of the proletariat > will unhesitatingly answer no to this question. > > > > No, our working class is far from ready to grasp political power with any > advantage to itself and the country at large. To foist such a power upon > it means to push it towards a great historical calamity which will prove > the greatest tragedy for all Russia. > > > > It is said that what the Russian worker will begin the German worker will > finish. But it is a great mistake to think so. There is no doubt that in > an economic sense Germany is much further developed than Russia. The > social revolution is nearer in Germany than it is in Russia. But even > among the Germans it is not yet a question of the day. > > > > That means that the Germans will not finish what the Russians have > started, nor can it be done by the French, the British, or the Americans. > By seizing power at this moment, the Russian proletariat will not achieve > a social revolution. It will only bring on civil war, which will in the > end force a retreat from the positions won in February and March of this > year. > >
Plekhanov was also Marxist. It is difficult to find some objective writing about Plekhanov. Everything was written by Marxist Leninists, who think that the October Revolution was a success for the working class. Maybe in this prediction, Plekhanov was wrong regarding the Bolsheviks taking power but was not wrong that the Russian proletariat would not achieve a social revolution. Probably it would be better for the idea of socialism, the world working class, and Russia's working class that everything finished with the February Revolution. Russia was not ready for a socialist revolution and Lenin was wrong in expecting some socialist revolution in Europe, about what the real success of the Russian revolution depended on. Plekhanov was right in those predictions -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29566): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29566 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/105034294/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
