“The leader and figurehead of the opposition and main target of vilification was Leon Trotsky. Serge left Vienna and sped to join the struggle for the soul of the revolution. Discussion, not to speak of opposition, was stifled. Votes were formalities, forced through by the newly created majority – the Lenin levy, 250,000 new recruits to the party who owed everything to the party apparatus. Poets, worker militants and intellectuals were committing suicide from despair. The other side of repression was corruption. By the winter of 1927..”
The untamed revolutionary, by Victor Serge
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I agree with that. The thing is people can make a difference in this world if other people are willing to do the same. Unfortunately, there’s only a few that are trying, tried, or who have made some kind of difference. It’s a group effort and you can’t force people too. Artistic and intelligent people see that this world is too fucked up, they resort to the latter. For those who brave it out, they are either completely undermined during their time or die young like good people. I figure if there is a God in heaven, he would be patient and leave the good and the gifted on this world to make it better. If heaven is a paradise, he has enough people in there who fit this bill. Why take the ones that are making beauty in this ugly world? Life is too complicated.