Georgi Plekhanov
said
Children like to work, and are always eager to imitate the work of adults.
— Utopian Socialism in the Nineteenth Century, 1913, Ch. 5.
Georgi Plekhanov
Russian philosopher (1856–1918)
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He brought Marx to Russia, then watched his protégé Lenin twist it into something he couldn't stomach. The theorist who trained a generation of revolutionaries spent his final year warning that the October Revolution would wreck the country.
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Plekhanov started as a populist before founding the Emancipation of Labour group in 1883, Russia's first Marxist political organization. His theoretical writings converted revolutionaries including Lenin to the cause, earning him the title "father of Russian Marxism". In 1900 he partnered with Lenin to launch the party paper Iskra, and at the 1903 congress briefly sided with the Bolsheviks before breaking over what he saw as excessive centralism, becoming a Menshevik leader instead. During the 1905 revolution he argued Russia was only ready for bourgeois democracy, not proletarian power. World…
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Georgi Plekhanov
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People [who belong in this environment] look for a path in the heavens for the simple reason that they have lost their way on earth.
— On the so-called religious searches in Russia, 1909, article 3 (Gospel from decadence), chapter 8, first paragraph.
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