https://blog.spacehey.comForum Topic created by Volodyahttps://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=840412https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=840412“The whole Provisional Government is a government of the capitalist class. It is a matter of class, not of persons. To attack Milyukov personally, to demand, directly or indirectly, his dismissal, is a silly comedy, for no change of personalities can change anything so long as the classes in power are unchanged” (V.I. Lenin / “Icons Versus Cannons, Phrases Versus Capital” / 1917).Sat, 11 Oct 2025 10:57:34 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=839260https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=839260“Picture to yourselves a slave-owner who owns 100 slaves warring against a slave-owner who owns 200 slaves for a more “just” distribution of slaves. Clearly, the application of the term “defensive” war, or war “for the defence of the fatherland” in such a case would be historically false, and in practice would be sheer deception of the common people, of philistines, of ignorant people, by the astu...Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:22:39 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=839256https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=839256“In any case the hired worker will be an object of exploitation. Successful struggle against exploitation requires that the proletariat be free of nationalism, and be absolutely neutral, so to speak, in the fight for supremacy that is going on among the bourgeoisie of the various nations. If the proletariat of any one nation gives the slightest support to the privileges of its “own” national bourg...Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:21:35 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=839254https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=839254“Look at the capitalists: They try to inflame national strife among the “common people”, while they themselves manage their business affairs remarkably well — Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Jews, and Germans together in one and the same corporation. Against the workers the capitalists of all nations and religions are united, but they strive to divide and weaken the workers by national strife!” (V.I....Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:20:45 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=839253https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=839253“The whole point is that a bourgeois state which is exercising the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie through a democratic republic cannot confess to the people that it is serving the bourgeoisie; it cannot tell the truth, and has to play the hypocrite. But the state of the Paris Commune type, the Soviet state, openly and frankly tells the people the truth and declares that it is the dictatorship of ...Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:19:41 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=839252https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=839252“In a society based on private property and the enslavement of millions of propertyless toilers by a handful of rich people, the government cannot be anything but the loyal friend and ally of the exploiters and the most reliable guardian of their power. And in order to be a reliable guardian, it is not enough to possess guns, bayonets, and whips in our times: it is necessary to convince the exploi...Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:18:36 +0000https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=839251https://forum.spacehey.com/reply?id=839251“Some own land, factories and capital and live on the unpaid labour of the workers; these form an insignificant minority. Others, namely, the vast mass of the population, own no means of production and live only by selling their labour-power; these are proletarians. …The bourgeoisie and the proletariat enjoy equal political rights. But they are not equal in class status: one class, the capitalists...Sun, 05 Oct 2025 19:17:23 +0000