5 October 1917. Georgi Plekhanov

Non-fiction

Project 1917 is a series of events that took place a hundred years ago as described by those involved. It is composed only of diaries, letters, memoirs, newspapers and other documents

Georgi Plekhanov

5, Sofiysky boulevard, Tsarskoe Selo, Russian Republic

“Den’” says that the fool won. Probably. Lenin won. But Lenin is not a fool at all.

He knows his business. Of course, his business has absolutely nothing to do with that of our era’s intelligent proletariat. His tactic is the new, hugely widespread publication of Bakunin’s “rebellious” tactics, and it bears not even a remote similarity to those revolutionary tactics which were bequeathed to us by the founders of scientific socialism. But this is a whole other question, entirely distinct from the question which now occupies us, namely: who was victorious in the Petrograd Democratic conference? We can think of only one answer to this last question: Lenin won, and you absolutely cannot call him an idiot on the basis that he has an excellent knowledge of his own shady business.

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