lpetrich
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This is something that I read long ago, and that I recently rediscovered.
Lenin: The Government's Falsification of the Duma and the Tasks of the Social-Democrats in marxists.org
Some context:
That quote from him makes me think: is there a such thing as too much gratitude?
Lenin: The Government's Falsification of the Duma and the Tasks of the Social-Democrats in marxists.org
Some context:
The "liberals" here are wimpy and cowardly moderate reformists.But here we see the deep gulf that separates the tactics of the liberal-monarchist bourgeoisie from the tactics of the socialist proletariat. The Social-Democrats advocate a struggle, and explain to the people with the aid of a thousand and one lessons from history that a struggle is inevitable; they are preparing for it and retaliate to the intensification of reaction with intensified revolutionary agitation. The liberals cannot advocate a struggle, because they are afraid of it. They respond to the intensification of reaction by whining about a constitution, thus corrupting people’s minds, and by intensified opportunism.
In effect, liberals are excessively grateful.The methods of the liberals were aptly and graphically hit off by the Trudovik Sedelnikov at a meeting on May 9 in the Panina Palace. When a liberal is abused, he says: Thank God they didn’t beat me. When he is beaten, he thanks God they didn’t kill him. When he is killed, he will thank God that his immortal soul has been delivered from its mortal clay.
That quote from him makes me think: is there a such thing as too much gratitude?