🔴 Lenin: Loot the Looters
Vladimir Lenin, Advice to Workers and Peasants. 1917
Original Source: Pravda, No. 18, 6 February 1918, p. 3.
You … have before you the very difficult and noble task … of organizing the new economic order in the provinces and of establishing on a firm foundation the power of the Soviets. In doing this you will be helped … by all workers and peasants … who are coming more and more to see that apart from the Soviet Government there is no escape from famine and death …
The bourgeoisie … and the saboteurs are … conspiring against us. They know that they will be completely ruined … if the people succeed in dividing the national wealth which is now in the exclusive possession of the rich …
That is where your function begins. You must organize and consolidate the Soviet power in the villages. You will encounter there the village-bourgeoisie–the kulaks-who will hinder your work in every way. But to fight them will be an easy matter. The masses will be with you …
Make it clear to the peasant that the kulaks and the bloodsuckers must be expropriated in order to bring about a just and equitable distribution of goods … The bourgeoisie are concealing in their coffers the riches which they have plundered, and are saying, “We shall sit tight for a while.” We must catch the plunderers and compel them to return the spoils.
Your chief business will be this: do not let the brigands get away with their riches, otherwise we shall perish …
That Bolshevik was right who in reply to a question whether or not it was true that the Bolsheviks are looters, said, “Yes, we loot the looters.”
Source: James Bunyan and H.H. Fisher, ed., Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1918; Documents and Materials (Stanford: Stanford University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1934), pp. 542-543.
Vladimir Lenin, Advice to Workers and Peasants. 1917
Original Source: Pravda, No. 18, 6 February 1918, p. 3.
You … have before you the very difficult and noble task … of organizing the new economic order in the provinces and of establishing on a firm foundation the power of the Soviets. In doing this you will be helped … by all workers and peasants … who are coming more and more to see that apart from the Soviet Government there is no escape from famine and death …
The bourgeoisie … and the saboteurs are … conspiring against us. They know that they will be completely ruined … if the people succeed in dividing the national wealth which is now in the exclusive possession of the rich …
That is where your function begins. You must organize and consolidate the Soviet power in the villages. You will encounter there the village-bourgeoisie–the kulaks-who will hinder your work in every way. But to fight them will be an easy matter. The masses will be with you …
Make it clear to the peasant that the kulaks and the bloodsuckers must be expropriated in order to bring about a just and equitable distribution of goods … The bourgeoisie are concealing in their coffers the riches which they have plundered, and are saying, “We shall sit tight for a while.” We must catch the plunderers and compel them to return the spoils.
Your chief business will be this: do not let the brigands get away with their riches, otherwise we shall perish …
That Bolshevik was right who in reply to a question whether or not it was true that the Bolsheviks are looters, said, “Yes, we loot the looters.”
Source: James Bunyan and H.H. Fisher, ed., Bolshevik Revolution, 1917-1918; Documents and Materials (Stanford: Stanford University Press; H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1934), pp. 542-543.
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The Actor of the Year Award goes to this French pro-Israel politician, who turns into a clown by staging an attack on himself at a pro-Palestine protest.
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The biggest Amazon strike in history is underway, and Starbucks workers are rising up as well. Workers are hitting the capitalists when it hurts the most: the busy holiday season. Meanwhile, police are serving Jeff Bezos by breaking picket lines and arresting workers.
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On this day, 20 December 1973, the Spanish fascist prime minister, who was hand-picked as dictator Francisco Franco's successor, Luis Carrero Blanco, was assassinated in Madrid.
Basque separatists ETA had spent five months digging a tunnel under a road he went down to attend mass. They then detonated a bomb as he drove over, shooting his car 35 metres into the air and over a five-storey building, earning Carrero Blanco the nickname "Spain's first astronaut".
His successor was unable to hold together different factions of the government, and so this action was credited by some for helping accelerate the restoration of democracy after Franco's death.
People in Spain continue to experience state repression for joking about Carrero Blanco’s death. One young woman was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment in 2017 for a series of tweets, including one asking: “Did Carrero Blanco also go back to the future with his car?”
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Basque separatists ETA had spent five months digging a tunnel under a road he went down to attend mass. They then detonated a bomb as he drove over, shooting his car 35 metres into the air and over a five-storey building, earning Carrero Blanco the nickname "Spain's first astronaut".
His successor was unable to hold together different factions of the government, and so this action was credited by some for helping accelerate the restoration of democracy after Franco's death.
People in Spain continue to experience state repression for joking about Carrero Blanco’s death. One young woman was sentenced to a year’s imprisonment in 2017 for a series of tweets, including one asking: “Did Carrero Blanco also go back to the future with his car?”
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Today marks the birth of Joseph Stalin, born on December 21, 1879, a figure whose leadership was deeply intertwined with the monumental achievements of the working class. Under his tenure, the Soviet proletariat transformed their nation through collective labor, building an industrial base that ensured economic independence and self-reliance. The collective efforts of workers and peasants brought about widespread collectivization, aimed at dismantling feudal remnants and empowering rural communities. During the Second World War, it was the resilience and sacrifice of the Soviet working class, united under a socialist framework, that delivered a decisive blow to fascism. However, after Stalin’s passing, revisionist policies undermined these hard-fought gains, reversing much of the progress made by the proletariat and weakening the global socialist cause.
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Happy Birthday to the pan-African revolutionary Thomas Sankara! Inspired by the example of the revolutionary armed movements in China and Cuba under Mao Zedong and Fidel Castro, he believed the armed forces could act as a progressive socialist force to help improve people’s lives.
Sankara launched extensive social, ecological, and economic programs and land reform. Setting a personal example, he cut his salary and sold off the government fleet of Mercedes while maintaining an austere lifestyle. He was also known for his solid anti-imperialist foreign policy, which challenged Western imperialism in Africa, mainly from France.
However, Sankara’s presidency came to a tragic end in 1987 when he was murdered during a coup organized by Blaise Compaoré, who had become Sankara’s closest friend after they had met in the military and who had been involved in the 1983 revolution. Read on.
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Sankara launched extensive social, ecological, and economic programs and land reform. Setting a personal example, he cut his salary and sold off the government fleet of Mercedes while maintaining an austere lifestyle. He was also known for his solid anti-imperialist foreign policy, which challenged Western imperialism in Africa, mainly from France.
However, Sankara’s presidency came to a tragic end in 1987 when he was murdered during a coup organized by Blaise Compaoré, who had become Sankara’s closest friend after they had met in the military and who had been involved in the 1983 revolution. Read on.
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