-Rajesh
Tyagi/ 24.2.2015
History had been cruel and unjust in imposing the task of world socialist revolution upon
the shoulders of Russian proletariat, that existed not more than a droplet in
the vast ocean of peasant mass in backward Russia, at the advent of last century. But alongside this, the Russian proletariat was the first to be
blessed with two magical weapons- the leadership under Lenin and Trotsky, and
the Party oriented ultimately to their program.
Despite all
zig-zags before and even after February revolution by the Bolshevik leaders,
those epigones of Leninism, ‘Red October’ was created through unique blending
of best of Lenin and Trotsky. Trotsky turned to Lenin’s approach on the
question of Party, abandoning his misbelief in non-party positions, and Lenin
turned to Trotsky’s ‘Permanent Revolution’ abandoning his false theory of ‘two
stage revolution’ and ‘two class dictatorship’. Lenin’s April thesis was the
beautiful embodiment of this blending and shunning of whatever was disproved
and rejected by the February Revolution. Commenting on this secondary aspect of
theory vis a vis reality of life, that brilliant genius, Lenin had remarked, “the
theory is brown my friend, but the tree of life is green”.
