Lenin said:
It is not difficult to be a revolutionary when revolution has already broken out and is in spate, when all people are joining the revolution just because they are carried away, because it is the vogue, and sometimes even from careerist motives. After its victory, the proletariat has to make most strenuous efforts, even the most painful, so as to “liberate” itself from such pseudo-revolutionaries. It is far more difficult—and far more precious—to be a revolutionary when the conditions for direct, open, really mass and really revolutionary struggle do not yet exist, to be able to champion the interests of the revolution (by propaganda, agitation and organization) in non-revolutionary bodies, and quite often in downright reactionary bodies, in a non-revolutionary situation, among the masses who are incapable of immediately appreciating the need for revolutionary methods of action.
That’s you Hossam and I will always respect u for it.
Egypt’s Lenin? I wish :) And thanks for all the support as always x
It is very important here not to confuse pseudo-revolutionaries with countre-revolutionaries because people tend to do so. Personally,contrary to Lenin, I find pseudo-revolutioaries to be not worth the effort. They are peolpe who can switch sides easily, have no convictions but what they think would be in their own intrest, and -despite everything- they are usually harmless.
I see this catagory of people to form the majority of any society and the mass that can outweigh the forces of tyranny in the struggle for freedom. Rather than alienating their role or “purifying” the revolution from them, I believe in winning them over but without being too eager.
thanks hossam.altho i work telegraph in berkeley only a couple days a week now,i fly the palestinian flag WITH the egyptian flag side by side.thanks for being alive,bro.russ