Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 16 - From Marx to Mao

165WHAT TO FIGHT FOR?The recent utterances of the Octobrists, the predominatingparty in the Duma, in connection with the speechesmade by Right-wing Cadets there and elsewhere, are undoubtedlyhighly symptomatic. “We are isolated in the countryand in the Duma,” complained the head of the party ofcounter-revolutionary capitalists, Mr. Guchkov. And theVekhist Mr. Bulgakov echoes him, as it were, in MoskovskyYezhenedelnik: ... “both the reaction and the revolutiondeny ‘inviolability of the person’; on the contrary theyaffirm ‘violability’ of the person with all their heart andsoul—there is complete identity between Markov the Second,with his persecution of non-Russian races and his pogrommorality, and the Social-Democrat Gegechkori, who appealsto a ‘second great Russian revolution’ in the name of inviolabilityof the person” (No. 8, February 20, 1910, page 25).“We are waiting,” said Mr. Guchkov in the Duma, addressingthe tsarist government, signifying by these wordsthat the bourgeoisie, which has surrendered body and soulto the counter-revolution, cannot as yet regard their interestsas assured or see anything really firm and stable in the senseof the creation of the famous “renovated” order.And the Vekhist Bulgakov echoes him: “... I reflect withundiminishing pain on the old, bitter and anguishingthought: yes, it’s the same thing [i.e., the reaction and therevolution are the same thing, namely—] ... the same Maximalismeffected by force.... Of late some people are alreadybeginning again to sigh for a new revolution, as though now,after what we have experienced, anything could be expectedfrom it but the final collapse of Russia” (p. 32).The Duma leader of the largest bourgeois party anda Right-wing Cadet publicist who is popular in liberal