Only An Armed People Can

To Picture World History As Advancing Smoothly And Steadily Without Sometimes Taking Gigantic Strides Backward Is Undialectical, Unscientific And Theoretically Wrong.

Hundreds Of Thousands And Millions Of Wage Slaves Of Capital And Peasants Downtrodden By The Serf-owners Are Going To The Slaughter For The Dynastic Interests Of A Handful Of Crowned Brigands, For The Profits Of The Bourgeoisie In Its Drive To Plunder Foreign Lands.

By Destroying The Peasant Economy And Driving The Peasant From The Country To The Town, The Famine Creates A Proletariat... Furthermore The Famine Can And Should Be A Progressive Factor Not Only Economically. It Will Force The Peasant To Reflect On The Bases Of The Capitalist System, Demolish Faith In The Tsar And Tsarism, And Consequently In Due Course Make The Victory Of The Revolution Easier... Psychologically All This Talk About Feeding The Starving And So On Essentially Reflects The Usual Sugary Sentimentality Of Our Intelligentsia.

The Oppressed Are Allowed Once Every Few Years To Decide Which Particular Representatives Of The Oppressing Class Are To Represent And Repress Them In Parliament.

You Must Have Your Heart On Fire And Your Brain On Ice.