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

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THE BOLSHEVIKS MUST ASSUME POWER21We must remember and weigh <strong>Marx</strong>’s words about insurrection,“Insurrection is an art”, 6 etc.* **It would be naïve <strong>to</strong> wait for a “formal” majority forthe Bolsheviks. No revolution ever waits for that. Kerenskyand Co. are not waiting either, and are preparing <strong>to</strong> surrenderPetrograd. It is the wretched waverings <strong>of</strong> the DemocraticConference that are bound <strong>to</strong> exhaust the patience<strong>of</strong> the workers <strong>of</strong> Petrograd and Moscow! His<strong>to</strong>ry will notforgive us if we do not assume power now.There is no apparatus? There is an apparatus—the Sovietsand the democratic organisations. The internationalsituation right now, on the eve <strong>of</strong> the conclusion <strong>of</strong> a separatepeace between the British and the Germans, is in ourfavour. To propose peace <strong>to</strong> the nations right now means<strong>to</strong> win.By taking power both in Moscow and in Petrograd a<strong>to</strong>nce (it doesn’t matter which comes first, Moscow maypossibly begin), we shall win absolutely and unquestionably.N. <strong>Lenin</strong>Written September12-14 (25-27), 1917First published in 1921in the magazine ProletarskayaRevolutsia, No. 2Published according<strong>to</strong> the magazine text verifiedwith a typewritten copy

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