Serbovia
Establishing Nation
PROLOGUE
"The failure of the Revolution of 1907 did not come about due to any lack of Revolutionary calling among the repressed working classes and the peasantry of our country, for I am certain that each and every one of them would've been willing to throw themselves in front of the Monarchist cannons and bayonets had we then done the necessary, sounding the battle horn of the disenfranchised and raised the Militias of the Workers and the Peasants in the name of justice and liberation.
Instead, we mistakenly allied ourselves with those nominally in favor of liberation of the oppressed masses of our country but too effete in their belief in the concepts of legitimacy and peaceful revolution - the Social-Democrats - and the liberal bourgeoise who from the starting point couldn't have cared less about our struggle. We allowed an alliance of convenience to seize hold of our Revolution and pervert its course, and we lacked the willingness to undertake the necessary in the name of a new, better society.
The degeneration of our objectives in 1907 is an undisputable historical fact. From now on, we must incorporate these lessons into our political program to the fullest. A Socialist revolution cannot occur in the context of parliamentarism. The proletariat can never be truly empowered in a system of bourgeoise democracy. Though a bourgeoise democracy might nominally be free of political repression and permit us a representation in an elected legislature, the structures of economic and social repression continue to exist and can never be truly reformed in a parliamentary context.
Thus, the only solution is a violent revolution perpetrated by the repressed masses, and the absolute eradication of the structures of repression. Propaganda of the deed is the highest duty of every proletarian."
- Juhana Koivisto, On the Class Struggle in Fennia, published underground circa 1916 by Social-Revolutionary agitators, republished officially in print by the Fennian Social-Revolutionary Party in 1920.
"The failure of the Revolution of 1907 did not come about due to any lack of Revolutionary calling among the repressed working classes and the peasantry of our country, for I am certain that each and every one of them would've been willing to throw themselves in front of the Monarchist cannons and bayonets had we then done the necessary, sounding the battle horn of the disenfranchised and raised the Militias of the Workers and the Peasants in the name of justice and liberation.
Instead, we mistakenly allied ourselves with those nominally in favor of liberation of the oppressed masses of our country but too effete in their belief in the concepts of legitimacy and peaceful revolution - the Social-Democrats - and the liberal bourgeoise who from the starting point couldn't have cared less about our struggle. We allowed an alliance of convenience to seize hold of our Revolution and pervert its course, and we lacked the willingness to undertake the necessary in the name of a new, better society.
The degeneration of our objectives in 1907 is an undisputable historical fact. From now on, we must incorporate these lessons into our political program to the fullest. A Socialist revolution cannot occur in the context of parliamentarism. The proletariat can never be truly empowered in a system of bourgeoise democracy. Though a bourgeoise democracy might nominally be free of political repression and permit us a representation in an elected legislature, the structures of economic and social repression continue to exist and can never be truly reformed in a parliamentary context.
Thus, the only solution is a violent revolution perpetrated by the repressed masses, and the absolute eradication of the structures of repression. Propaganda of the deed is the highest duty of every proletarian."
- Juhana Koivisto, On the Class Struggle in Fennia, published underground circa 1916 by Social-Revolutionary agitators, republished officially in print by the Fennian Social-Revolutionary Party in 1920.
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