Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

ADVISE OF AN ONLOOKER181to encircle and cut off Petrograd; to seize it by a combinedattack of the sailors, the workers, and the troops—a taskwhich requires art and triple audacity;to form detachments from the best workers, armed withrifles and bombs, for the purpose of attacking and surroundingthe enemy’s “centres” (the officers’ schools, the telegraphoffice, the telephone exchange, etc.). Their watchwordmust be: “Better die to a man than let the enemy pass!”Let us hope that if action is decided on, the leaders willsuccessfully apply the great precepts of Danton and Marx.The success of both the Russian and the world revolutiondepends on two or three days’ fighting.Written on October 8 (21), 1917First published in November 7,Published according1920 in the newspaper Pravda No. 250 to the newspaper textSigned: An Onlooker