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

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IN MEMORY OF COUNT HEYDEN57democratic press, this is a model <strong>of</strong> humaneness. “He hada heart <strong>of</strong> gold, he wouldn’t hurt a fly!” “A rare and happylot”—<strong>to</strong> support the Dubasovs, <strong>to</strong> enjoy the fruits <strong>of</strong> thevengeance wreaked by the Dubasovs, and not <strong>to</strong> be heldresponsible for the Dubasovs.The drawing-room democrat considers it the height <strong>of</strong>democracy <strong>to</strong> sigh over the fact that we are not being governedby the Heydens (for it never enters the head <strong>of</strong> thisdrawing-room simple<strong>to</strong>n that there is a “natural” division<strong>of</strong> labour between the Heydens and the Dubasovs). Listen<strong>to</strong> this:“...and how sad that he [Heyden]* has died now, when he wouldhave been most useful. He would now have fought the extreme Right,revealing the finest aspects <strong>of</strong> his soul and defending constitutionalprinciples with all the energy and fertility <strong>of</strong> mind natural <strong>to</strong> him.”(Tovarishch, No. 299, Friday, June 22, “In Memory <strong>of</strong> Count Heyden”,a letter from Pskov Gubernia.)How sad that the educated and humane Heyden, the peacefulrenova<strong>to</strong>r, is not here <strong>to</strong> cloak with his constitutionalphrase-mongering the nakedness <strong>of</strong> the Third, Oc<strong>to</strong>bristDuma, the nakedness <strong>of</strong> the au<strong>to</strong>cracy which is destroyingthe Duma! It is the aim <strong>of</strong> the “democratic” journalist not<strong>to</strong> tear <strong>of</strong>f the false cloak, not <strong>to</strong> show up <strong>to</strong> the people theiroppressor enemies in all their nakedness, but <strong>to</strong> regretthe absence <strong>of</strong> the experienced hypocrites who adorn theranks <strong>of</strong> the Oc<strong>to</strong>brists.... Was ist der Philister? Ein hohlerDarm, voll Furcht und H<strong>of</strong>fnung, dass Gott erbarm! Whatis a philistine? A hollow gut, full <strong>of</strong> fear and hope that Godwill have mercy! 30 What is the Russian liberal-democraticphilistine <strong>of</strong> the Cadet and near-Cadet camp? A hollowgut, full <strong>of</strong> fear and hope that the counter-revolutionarylandlord will have mercy!June 1907Published in 1907 in thefirst symposium Voice <strong>of</strong> Life,St. PetersburgSigned: N. L.Published according<strong>to</strong> the book text* Interpolations in square brackets (within passages quoted by<strong>Lenin</strong>) have been introduced by <strong>Lenin</strong>, unless otherwise indicated.—Ed.

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