Re: AR's politics


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Posted by Ian E-N on February 07, 2006 at 10:01:30 from 148.88.192.240 user IanEN.

In Reply to: Re: AR's politics posted by Adam Quinan on February 07, 2006 at 00:21:24:

> He probably thought that the Bolsheviks were bringing a more democratic and enlightened way of life to the Russian people.

"From the very first there could be no sort of doubt in the mind of an unprejudiced observer as to which of these two bodies best represented the Russian people. I do not think I shall ever again be so happy in my life as I was during those first days when I saw working men and peasant soldiers sending representatives of their class and not of mine. I remembered Shelley's

Shake your chains to earth like dew

Which in sleep had fallen on you -

Ye are many they are few,

and wondered that this thing had not come to pass before."

Followed by a fine mix of pragmatism, principles, and romance.


"And, apart from the immediate business of the war, remember that Germany is seeking by every means, open and secret, to obtain such command over Russia's resources as will in the long run allow her to dictate her will to Russia's people. Remember that the Soviet Government, fully aware of this, would be glad of your help, of your co-operation, would be glad even to give you control over some part of her resources, if only to prevent that ominous ultimate dominion within Russia of a single foreign Power. Remember all these things, if indeed you need, as I think you do not need, such selfish motives to prompt you to the support of men who, if they fail, will fail only from having hoped too much. Every true man is in some sort, until his youth dies and his eyes harden, the potential builder of a New Jerusalem. At some time or other every one of us has dreamed of laying his brick in such a work. And even if this thing that is being builded here with tears and blood is not the golden city that we ourselves have dreamed, it is still n thing to the sympathetic understanding of which each one of us is bound. by whatever he owes to his own youth."

AR - The Truth About Russia


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