Party activists are hounded in great numbers, forced to betray others, to confess to preposterous crimes with stentorian declarations
The shift is born of despair, as any prospects for international revolution recede. But if it is utopian to hope that international support is around the corner, how much more so is it to wager on the impossible – autarchic socialism?
Lenin has fought a lonely battle insisting that the invidious demands be accepted
A political via negativa, an apophatic revolutionism
Revolutionary government was proclaimed.
Revolutionary government had been proclaimed, and that was enough for one night. It would more than do for a first meeting, surely.
Exhausted, drunk on history, nerves still taut as wires, the delegates to the Second Congress of Soviets stumbled out of…
