11 Dec 1856
He was born in Tambov province Georgy Plekhanov — philosopher and revolutionary. The father of Russian Marxism.
The revolution that has taken place could lead to political deformity. That is, to a renewed tsarist despotism with a communist veneer.
The revolutionary who fought for workers' rights came from the nobility.
I became interested in revolutionary ideas at 18, while in college. I joined a revolutionary circle.
At 19, he became one of the organizers of a protest rally at Kazan Cathedral, which attracted up to 250 workers and students. They raised a red flag and fought with police. They fled after street cleaners and ordinary passersby came to the police's aid.
The great tragedy of the Russian radical intelligentsia is that its best representatives, without a second thought, sacrificed themselves for the liberation of the people, while the people remained deaf to their calls and were sometimes ready to stone them.
At 23, he was detained during a workers' strike and fled the country using false documents.
He lived in exile for 37 years. He became fascinated with the works of Marx, befriended Engels, and translated their books into Russian. He founded the first communist organization operating in Russia.
He came to the conclusion that the peasant country was not ripe for revolution. As early as 1884, he spoke of the threat of "professional revolutionaries" attempting to seize power. At the time, Lenin was 14 years old and Stalin was 5.
However, at the Second Congress of the RSDLP, where the split between the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks occurred, Plekhanov and Lenin were in alliance. Later, their paths diverged.
He returned after the February Revolution of 1917. He called Lenin's April Theses nonsense, which was taken up by the "unbridled rabble of unskilled workers."
He spoke out against armed rebellion and warned of civil war, which a single-party dictatorship would bring. He called for a temporary alliance with the liberal bourgeoisie.
He died of tuberculosis in 1918. Despite a Bolshevik ban, his coffin was escorted by a 7-kilometer-long procession.
People seek the way to heaven for the simple reason that they have lost their way on earth.