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

192V. I. LENINdemanded deeds from them and not words, a decisive policyboth in the struggle against the war and in the struggleagainst economic ruin. If the political analysis of the revolutionwere taken as the basis, it would be perfectly clearthat even anarchic outbursts confirmed that.Lenin went onto analyse the situation in Europe andshowed that revolution would be even more difficult inEurope than in Russia; if matters had gone as far as a revoltin the navy in such a country as Germany, there too theymust already have gone very far. Certain objective data onthe international situation showed that by acting at thatmoment the Bolsheviks would have all proletarian EuropeFROM MARXTO MAOon their side; he showed that the bourgeoisie wanted tosurrender Petrograd. That could only be prevented by the⋆Bolsheviks taking over Petrograd. The obvious conclusionfrom all this was—the armed uprising was on the order ofthe day as was stated in the resolution of the Central Committee.It would be better to draw practical conclusions from theresolution after hearing the reports of representatives fromthe centres.From a political analysis of the class struggle in Russiaand in Europe there emerged the necessity to pursue themost determined and most active policy, which could beonly the armed uprising.NOT FORCOMMERCIAL2SPEECHES IN DISCUSSIONDISTRIBUTIONMINUTES1Comrade Lenin argued against Milyutin and Schotmannand showed that it was not a matter of armed forces, thatit was not a question of fighting against the troops but ofone part of the army fighting against another. He couldsee no pessimism in what had been said there. He demonstratedthat the forces on the side of the bourgeoisie were small.The facts showed that ours were superior to the enemy. Whycould the Central Committee not begin? There was no reasonthat derived from the facts. To reject the resolution of the