Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 13 - From Marx to Mao

494V. I. LENIN15, it writes, on the occasion of the anniversary, that thesocialists, those “wild equalitarians”, preach the cult oftheir great men, that the chief evil of the teachings of Marx,who “hated the bourgeoisie”, is the theory of the struggle ofclasses. “He preached to the working classes not temporaryconflicts alternating with periods of truce, but a holy war,a war of extermination, of expropriation, a war for the promisedland of collectivism... a monstrous utopia.”...The bourgeois papers write well when stung to the quick.Life becomes a more cheerful thing when you see this growingideological unity among the liberal enemies of the proletariatall over the world, for this unity is one of the guaranteesof the unification of the millions of the international proletariat,which will win for itself its promised land, comewhat may.Proletary, No. 25,March (25) 12, 1908Published accordingto the text in Proletary