![]() Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who thinks differently. In reality, the opposite is true! It is the very giant tasks which the Bolsheviks have undertaken with courage and determination that demand the most intensive political training of the masses and the accumulation of experience.įreedom only for the supporters of the government, only for the members of one party – however numerous they may be – is no freedom at all. (Lenin’s speech: Russia is won for socialism!!!) Just because this is so, they have blocked up the fountain of political experience and the source of this rising development by their suppression of public life! Or else we would have to assume that experience and development were necessary up to the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks, and then, having reached their highest peak, become superfluous thereafter. Here Trotsky refutes himself and his own friends. “Thanks to the open and direct struggle for governmental power,” writes Trotsky, “the laboring masses accumulate in the shortest time a considerable amount of political experience and advance quickly from one stage to another of their development.” But for the proletarian dictatorship that is the life element, the very air without which it is not able to exist. This simplified view misses the most essential thing: bourgeois class rule has no need of the political training and education of the entire mass of the people, at least not beyond certain narrow limits. ![]() To a certain extent, he says, it is only the capitalist state stood on its head. ![]() ![]() Lenin says the bourgeois state is an instrument of oppression of the working class the socialist state, of the bourgeoisie. Rosa Luxemburg: The Russian Revolution (Chap.6) Rosa Luxemburg ![]()
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