Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917

Our Revolution: Essays on Working-Class and International Revolution, 1904-1917

[Pg 165] At the Stockholm Convention of the Social-Democratic Party, some curious statistical data was circulated, showing the conditions under which the party of the proletariat was working: The Convention as a whole, in the person of its 140 members, had spent in prison one hundred and thirty-eight years and three and a half months. The Convention had been in exile one hundred and forty-eight years and six and a half months. Escaped from prison: Once, eighteen members of the Convention; twice, four members. Escaped from exile: Once, twenty-three; twice, five; three times, one member. The length of time the Convention as a whole had been active in Social-Democratic work, was 942 years. It follows that the time spent in prison and exile is about one-third of the time a Social-Democrat is active. But these figures are too optimistic. "The Conven[Pg 166]tion has been active in Social-Democratic work for 942 years"this means merely that the activities of those persons had been spread over so many years. Their actual period of work must have been much shorter. Possibly all these persons had worked, actually and directly, only one-sixth or one-tenth of the above time. Such are conditions of underground activity. On the other hand, the time spent in prison and exile is real time: the Convention had spent over fifty thousand days and nights behind iron bars, and more than that in barbarous corners of the country. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 36303
Author: Trotsky, Leon
Release Date: Jun 2, 2011
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Translator: Olgin, Moissaye J. (Moissaye Joseph), 1874-1939