Lenin starts off with:
It has long been known that the reactionaries Republicans are bold and that the liberals are cowards.
New confirmation of this ancient truth is provided by the Democrats response to Cadets’ draft to the parliamentarian’ the State Duma’s appeal to the people on about minimum wage the question of the land.“
Trudoviks are like another party in coalition with the Cadets. They are the AOC’s to the Cadet’s Nancy Pelosi. Lenin, said, "Trudoviks also released their draft and it sucks just as badly as the Cadets”
Unfortunately, the Trudoviks’ the Squad draft is no better than that of the Pelosi Cadets. This time The Squad the Trudoviks are quite helplessly trailing behind the liberal bourgeoisie.
Lenin wonders,“What are my party members (the Social Democrats) doing? Will they come up with a less embarrassing draft?”
Lenin is warning the Social-Democrats not to suck and he is also warning them about the mistakes the other people have done to ensure that the Social Democrats don’t suck.
But will are the Social-Democrats in the Duma; will they not come to the rescue?
Lenin says “Remember, how this BS about "Duma appealing to the people” came about.
In its reply(their response) to the address from the throne (the state of the union from the tsar)the State Duma (the house) expressed itself in favour of the compulsory alienation (taking away) of the private estates (plantation owner’s lands) for the benefit of the peasantry (giving it to the peasants). The Goremykin Cabinet Jennifer Psaki concisely, clearly and with magnificent firmness and determination answered: “Impermissible.” (about taking the land away from the aristocracy and giving it to the peasants)
In other words, in 1906 in Tsarist Russia, their Nancy Pelosi made some BS platitude about “giving affordable access to not-slavery.” The Tsar smacked her down.
But the Cabinet did not confine itself to this gruff, police-official refusal. No, the Cabinet Ministers have learned something from the revolution. (Lenin) The Cabinet Ministers do not intend to confine their duties to making formal replies to formal questions of the Duma. (The Tsar’s Cabinet are playing dirty, not unlike how Mitch McConnell plays dirty all the time with Obama etc etc).
Lenin explains, “right-wingers are not stupid like liberals. They are know that the legislation actually doesn’t have much power”
The reactionaries are not formalists, they are practical men. They know that the real power is not the Duma, but the people. They want to carry their propaganda to the people. Without wasting precious time, they forthwith drew up an appeal to the people (made up some new random procedure). It was this government communication (of June 20) that suggested the idea of the Duma appealing to the people. The government showed the way, the Duma trailed behind the government, as it was incapable of being the first to take a course worthy of a genuine representative assembly of the people.
Hows the government’s communication framed? (Tsarist Russia’s equivalent of Fox News and Tucker Carlson). Like a real fighting manifesto of the reactionary monarchist party. (Like they are fighting propagandists for the Republican Party) Oh, the reactionaries are not bashful in the least! They know how to write in militant terms. In their “communication” they plainly speak in the name of the government (code for on behalf of the Tsar). Indeed, why should they stand on ceremony?
Lenin waste’s no time mocking liberals.
The liberal professors claim that we are living under a constitutional system and that the Duma is also a part of the government.
Lenin is pretending to be the Monarchists (Tsarists) and is “translating” monarchist’s code. It is exactly like “phrase-mongering” from Republicans..Literally it has not changed.
Let the professors chatter! Let them amuse the people with their constitutional antics! We reactionaries are practical men. We know that, in fact, we are the government. We say so plainly. As for the quibbles and formalism of these liberal pedants, we don’t care a fig for them. We say plainly and openly: peasants, you don’t know what is good for you. Compulsory alienation is no good to you; and we, the government, will not allow it. All the peasant talk about the land is lies and deception. It is the government that takes most care of the peasants. Even now it is ready to offer them sops. But the peasants have got to understand that they can not expect improvements to come from “sedition and violence”; they can be obtained only by “peaceful labour” (they should have added: for the landlords) and as a result of the constant care our autocratic government takes of the peasants.
Lenin explainesd, “that’s want the Tsar + Republicans monarchists said”
Such was the gist of the government’s communication.
And that’s what they say today too.
It is an actual declaration of war on the revolution. It is an actual manifesto of the reactionary autocracy saying to the people: We shall tolerate no nonsense! We shall crush you!
No explanation necessary.
And now the Cadets, and the Trudoviks who this time are in complete captivity to them, have set about answering the government’s challenge. The draft replies of the Cadets and the Trudoviks have been published today. What a miserable, truly pitiful impression these two drafts create!
Literally, what the gop always does:
The reactionary camarilla (Tsar) does not hesitate to break the law and to declare that what is formally only a small part of the government is the real and entire government.
Sapient Gudgeons are from a story. Lenin has described Sapient Gudgeons to mean “a vacuum of ineptitude” Exactly like what the Democrats did with the Parliamentarian.
“If you please” is like “if you can even call them that..”
The Cadets and Trudoviks like Shchedrin’s sapient gudgeons, take shelter in the reeds of the law. “They are hitting us with lawlessness”, say these snivelling people’s, if you please, representatives, “but we are defending ourselves with the law!”
The (Cadet) Duma, acting in accordance with the law, expresses itself in favor of compulsory alienation. According to the law
that the Tsar can break at anytime
According to the law, the Duma, expresses itself in favor of compulsory alienation. According to the law, no proposal can come into force" without the consent of the Duma"
Now, Lenin goes into mockery.
We, in accordance to the law, have appointed a committee, a big one, of 99 members.
Lenin adds his own commentary on what the alleged big committee of 99 members are doing.
This committee is drafting a carefully considered and properly framed law….
Lenin paraphrases the committee (the big one of 99 members)
Let the people peacefully and quietly await the conclusion of the work of promulgating this law
Lenin adds his own commentary on why that sentence was disgusting.
the Trudoviks deleted this utterly, indecently abject concluding sentence! Their consciences pricked them. But they inserted instead a statement about organising “local land institutions”
Published:
Ekho
, No. 12, July 5, 1906. Published according to the
Ekho
text.
Source:
Lenin Collected Works
, Progress Publishers,
1965
, Moscow,
Volume 11
, pages 96-100.
Translated:
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
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