＜ Episode 53 >
Dutch, Amsterdam and international revolutionaries in a boat used as a meeting place.
“How is the situation in Russia?”
“It may or may not be the worst. Comrades.”
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, aka Vladimir Lenin, shook his head.
“First of all, the worst thing is that the human butcher finally dropped Constantinople.”
“Constantinople, that’s how it ended up.”
“He fights well.”
“He is a person who deserves recognition for his ability alone. I wish I had walked the same path.”
“How many comrades were caught on the gallows because of that little boy….. The person I believed to be my friend was also discovered to be a Prakchi of Ohrana.”
Lenin shook his head. Thinking about what he had been through, he was almost at the point of distrust of humanity. Ohrana was somehow obsessed with pursuing him and not trying to kill him, but in his judgment it was only a matter of time.
“If it weren’t for the tsar’s dog, he’d be one of the most appropriate people to use as a propaganda tower for the revolution. After all, isn’t he from the oppressed colonies?”
“Can’t you just try to convince me now?”
“Who, how?”
Lenin responded with exasperation and continued.
“Anyway, the Count of Vostok, Prime Minister Stollipin, and these two men made the revolution in Russia a thing of the past. Supporters of our revolution, at least in the countryside, can be said to have dried up their seeds.”
“Is that enough?”
“Everyone is crazy about that damn religion. Comrade Marx was right. Religion is also the opium of the people.”
Of course, the actual stake in Stolipin was also quite substantial.
Originally, the forces that had the greatest distance from the theory of class revolution or anything like that were those who owned their own land and made a living by farming there, and the self-employed peasants.
This has been proven over and over again in the Russian Revolution as well as in the Communist Revolution that followed.
“The good news is that the Germans did the work. War fatigue is considerable in the city now. If Germany inflicts maximum damage on Russia in this offensive, then war-weary city workers can go on strike.”
It was just as Marx said. Originally, the communist revolution had to start with the city workers, wasn’t it?
However, others seemed to have a different opinion.
“I do not know. Wasn’t our original plan to establish a socialist regime by revolting the people who were crushed by meaningless deaths, endless warfare, and taxes while countries pushed and pushed each other in this ‘great war’? Didn’t they go to church because they were Russian city workers?”
“That’s right, but…”
“I think, but Russia is poor. In the first place, in theory, socialism should be achieved after capitalism failed to overcome its contradictions and collapsed. Was Russia at the forefront of capitalism? In my opinion, far from being a communist revolution, it seems to be a feudal state that has to go through the capitalist stage first.”
Lenin’s face was distorted when Rosa Luxemburg refuted by citing Marx’s theory.
No, looking at the atmosphere around him, there were only a few people who supported him.
“We dare to insist that we should focus more on Germany and Austria-Hungary, France and Great Britain, and not on the Russian Empire.”
“You are right, but there is one point that needs to be pointed out. After the betrayal of the German and French Socialist parties, it is an environment in which it is difficult to contact the revolutionary comrades inside. It’s Germany. Lady Luxembourg’s Spartacus Corps is here. Whatever they can do, the traitors of that revolution in the French Socialist Party are cooperating with the war effort, and even their former comrades are pushing them. That line completely collapsed…”
“Comrades, we are idealists, but at the same time we must be realists. No one can liberate anyone just by calling for a revolution with ideals alone. If the French Revolution is difficult because of the betrayal of French revolutionary comrades, the French Revolution will be postponed. Again, this is not giving up. Isn’t the goal of all of us, after all, a world revolution and the creation of a world without more wars or conflicts and without borders?”
This was also the ultimate goal of classical Marxism.
“But socialism is not a Christmas gift from those who run dictatorships in the name of the workers. Socialism is ultimately self-liberation, and no one can gift it to you.”
Lenin bit his lip.
In the end, her words were one.
The Russian people are not yet ready. And since the international international’s capabilities are limited, it cannot forcefully cause an unprepared revolution.
Therefore, it is wise to focus on the British or German side rather than the Russian Revolution.
In original history, Vladimir Lenin and Rosa Luxemburg were close friends during their exile in Germany, so they may have managed to find a compromise.
However, Ohrana persistently pursued the revolutionaries who would later become ‘big players’, such as Lenin and Trotsky. Lenin also felt threatened by this and had to flee not only in Germany, but in South America and wherever he could reach.
Of course, Ohrana had no intention of killing Lenin ‘right away’, so it didn’t really mean much.
Thanks to this, Lenin was closer to seeing Rosa Luxemburg for the first time here, far from acquaintance.
It was another butterfly effect evoked by history.
Lenin’s claws ripped the skin of his palm and began to bleed.
There was only one thing in his life after his brother got involved in the revolution and the family was devastated.
I will save this country.
Socialism is the only thing that can bring the future to this country. I believed so.
And this, in Lenin’s opinion, was virtually the last chance to revolutionize Russia.
I didn’t think the war would last that long.
Of course, the German Empire is propagating in its own way. It was possible to slap a fist in the face of an old lion this time because of that level of capability, and this time on the northern front, the state media of the German Empire is promoting it. there was no
However, the limitations were already evident. The Ottoman Empire lost Constantinople and was virtually eliminated from the war, and the Austro-Hungarian Empire completely burned its national capabilities in the last offensive, making it difficult to defend its own house.
Now Germany has to face Britain, France and Russia alone – Italy launched an offensive against the exhausted Austria-Hungary, and then broke up once again, consciously putting out of the question everyone who considered the war except the parties involved – Germany Far from winning alone, it was obvious that it would be difficult to hold on for long.
If the war ended like that, would they, in common sense, want to start another war after seeing so much blood?
It wasn’t in his opinion.
As long as they are human, they cannot.
Of course, someday, if a generation in which those who have forgotten the lessons of this age come to play the leading role, then there may be a great war again, but his life would not be continued until then.
And, in Lenin’s opinion, the only deterrent that had the potential to bring revolution to Russia was war, wasn’t it during the Russo-Japanese War?
Only war will complete the Russian revolution. He believed so.
However, with the revolution in front of us, our comrades were talking about giving up the revolution in his motherland Russia because it was difficult.
Just because the other one seems easier.
“… Britain allowed enemy troops to enter the mainland for the first time since the days of Viking invasions. Already, the City of London stock has hit a bottom, and the entire UK has gone into a panic. The government knows it’s not that great, but the people’s minds aren’t.”
“… So panic is inevitable, and in war, the destruction of the Royal Navy, followed by a panic, and rumors that the frontline is not good will increase dissatisfaction in Britain. A revolution is imminent, starting from the workers in London and from the citizens.”
“Comrade Marx said in his lifetime, ‘Capitalism will crumble from where it is most developed and will change into socialism. And, arguably, the most capitalist development on the planet is England, and London, isn’t it? Our revolution also begins in London, and it is also inevitable that the first socialist state will be England.”
Lenin stared at his bloody hands.
Does not matter. Since when did I become so weak that I thought that they could only fight with help?
There are many revolutionaries in the Russian Empire. Oh right? my secretary? Will their surveillance networks be the same during the war?
I will definitely return, I don’t need the help of those cowards.
The Russian Soviet Socialist Republic will be achieved with his own hands.
Should workers save themselves? that’s bullshit At least Lenin himself thought so.
Of course, Luxembourg does not deny the Vanguard Party. Rather, she was a faction supporting the Vanguard Party.
However, there was a difference between the two regarding the role played by the Vanguard Party. Whereas Lenin’s Vanguard Party thought it should be a leader leading the masses, Luxembourg thought it should be an educator to help the masses understand what socialism is.
It was also the cause of the separation between Rosa Luxemburg and Lenin. When Lenin voluntarily dissolved the parliament just because the Bolsheviks he led had lost the general election that constituted the Constituent Assembly after the Russian Revolution, Rosa Luxembourg ran down the street and said it was an atrocity to exclude the political participation of the masses from the revolution that should be achieved through the voluntary organization of the masses. It had been criticized.
And it became a reality. The Soviet Union was not a democracy with free suffrage but moved to a bureaucratic dictatorship, which was strengthened during the Stalin era.
Of course, Stalin himself tried to prevent the rise of the bureaucracy and the military itself as an interest group, which is a side effect derived from the bureaucratic dictatorship, through the great purge, but this was due to the Toxin War, the Cold War, and his own post-Stalin downgrade movement. It failed, and the military-industrial complex that was created as a result blocked the Soviet economic and systemic reforms and became the ultimate cause of missing out on the last opportunity for development in the 1970s.
Considering that this eventually led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, Rosa Luxemburg’s criticism was justified.
But at least Lenin didn’t know the future, so he couldn’t have the slightest doubt that he was right.
From the next day, Lenin did not appear in the conference hall.
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Meanwhile, the Second International, led by Rosa Luxembourg, agreed to focus its capabilities in the UK and Germany.