The Revolutionary's Catechism: a Primer for Modern American Liberalism
In the biography entitled Stalin, author Edvard Radzinsky introduced his readers to The Revolutionary's Catechism by Sergei Nechaev. Nechaev's catechism was the road map used by the Reds in their grab for the power of the Russian government.
Author Radzinsky was tenacious in gaining access to the Party Archives after the collapse of the Soviet empire. He likens his foray into those archives as taking the first footsteps into the secrets of "that incorrigibly conspiratorial party," as he describes the Bolsheviks and Communists in general.
Let's examine this statement for a moment. An "incorrigibly conspiratorial party," the author stated. Taking the statement at face value Radzinsky summed up not only the practical realization of Soviet Communism as practiced for 70 odd years, but he also indicted the methods employed by the Reds in their power grab, and used to assassinate the character of various Party members as they fell in and out of favor. And that conspiracy bit sounds a lot like the conspiracy theorists we find in the US today.
By way of demonstration as to the commitment of the Bolsheviks, Radzinsky points out the Revolutionary's Catechism's admonition that "comrades are to be valued only in accordance with their usefulness to the cause."
And these practices of the Reds were not only employed upon Party members to keep them in line; these same tactics were turned loose on the countryside as well. They used the term "expropriation" to describe their methods. They justified all manner of actions as acceptable within the revolutionary's toolkit: murder and political assassination, bank robbery, extortion, you name it; the Bolsheviks used it to gain power - and to keep it.
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