Herman Gorter Quotes

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• You should not do this, Comrade. We are only in the introductory stage yet, here in Western Europe. And in that stage it is better…
• What does it mean with regard to tactics, this fact that the proletariat of Western Europe stands all alone: that it has no prospect of…
• But the question is to find and rear leaders that are really one with the masses. This can only be accomplished by the masses, the…
• There is an enormous difference between Russia and Western Europe.
• And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland,…
• As farmers or owners, the poor peasants possess a piece of land. The excellent means of transport enables them often to sell their goods. At…
• Moreover, in Russia there was an enormous amount of landed property to be divided, large estates, crown lands, government land, and the estates held by…
• To judge from all Communist papers, magazines and brochures, and from all public assemblies, one might even surmise that a revolt of the poor peasants…
• The revolution came so suddenly, and in a way so utterly different from what we expected.
• For the Russian masses, the proletarians, knew for certain, and already saw during the war, and in part before their very eyes, that the peasants…
• Many a trace, and many a germ of this infantile disease, to which without a doubt, I also am a victim, has been chased away…
• The poor peasant here hives under conditions quite different from those of Russia. Though often terrible, they are not as appalling as they were there.
• This is the absolute truth: and on this truth our tactics must be based. All tactics that are not based on this are false, and…
• Because in Russia you were able to triumph with the help of a large class of poor peasants, you represent things in such a way,…
• Of course you know this difference as well as I do, only you failed to draw from it the conclusions for the tactics in Western…
• The revolution in Russia was terrible for the proletariat in the long years of its development and it is terrible now, after the victory. But…
• The revolution in Russia was victorious with the help of the poor peasants. This should always be borne in mind here in Western Europe and…

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