[lbo-talk] A Calculated Provocation

Michael Pugliese michael098762001 at earthlink.net
Mon Apr 19 10:38:35 PDT 2004


"No one is innocent, " eh? Sounds like Nechaev and the RAF. http://www.geocities.com/satanicreds/revolut.html "Sergei Nechaev (1847-1882) (ne-CHA-yev) was an extraordinary young Russian revolutionary whose scheme for a highly disciplined, professionally- organized revolutionary movement is outlined in his Catechism of a Revolutionary (1868).
> ...Nechaev was a zealot and a fanatic, but by nature a hero. As a means
> of realizing social revolution he preached deceit and pillage and
> pitiless terror. He was so strong a man that at the time when he was in
> Alexeevsky Ravelin he subjected the prison staff to such propaganda that
> through it he issued his directions to the revolutionary movement. He was
> in the grip of a single idea and in the name of that idea he demanded the
> sacrifice of everything. His Revolutionary Catechism is a book which is
> unique in its asceticism. It is a sort of instruction in the spiritual
> life of a revolutionary, and the demands which it makes are harsher than
> the requirements of Syrian asceticism. The revolutionary must have no
> interests, no business, no personal feelings and connections; he must
> have nothing of his own, not even a name. Everything is to be swallowed
> up by the single exclusive interest, by the one idea, the one passion -
> revolution. Everything which serves the cause of revolution is moral.
> Revolution is the one criterion of good and evil. The many must be
> sacrificed for the one. But this is also the principle of asceticism. In
> such a case the living human person is crushed; it is deprived of all the
> richness of the content of life for the sake of the Revolution - [which
> replaces] God. Nechaev demanded an iron discipline and extreme
> centralization of groups, and in this respect he was a predecessor of
> Bolshevism. The revolutionary tactics of Nechaev which permitted the most
> non-moral methods repelled the greater part of the Russian
> revolutionaries of narodnik persuasion; he even alarmed
> Bakunin....[Bakunin was a Satanist - see after the Nechaev text.]
- Nicholas Berdyaev, The Russian Idea
> ...NACHAEV: Catechism of a Revolutionary

The Attitude of the Revolutionary Towards Himself one gem among many in this screed>... 15. All this filthy society should be split into several categories. The first category consists of those condemned to death without delay. The organization of comrades should make up a list of the condemned, considering their harm to the success of the revolution, with those ranking highest being eliminated first.



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