Frederick
Engels, Democratic Pan-Slavism: "The Germans have taken the pains to
civilize the obstinate Czechs and Slovenes and to introduce amongst them
trade, industry, a tolerable agriculture and education! ... And one day
we shall take a bloody revenge on the Slavs ... hatred of the Russians
was, and still is, the first revolutionary passion of the Germans ... a
hatred of the Czechs and Croats has been added to this ... we can only
secure the revolution against these Slavs by the most decisive acts of
terrorism ... no reference to an indefinite democratic future of these
lands will prevent us from treating our enemies as enemies. ... then we
shall fight an impeccable life-and-death struggle with Slavdom ... a war
of annihilation and ruthless terrorism."
From Karl Marx, The Revolutions of 1848 (New York: Penguin Books, 1993)
There is even more of this stuff of which Marx too was guilty. Revolutionary racism, yeah?
From Karl Marx, The Revolutions of 1848 (New York: Penguin Books, 1993)
There is even more of this stuff of which Marx too was guilty. Revolutionary racism, yeah?
Well, he certainly was not a Leninist!
ReplyDeleteThe right of nations to self-determination is Lenin's invention. (...and Stalin's)