Victor Serge: “Every revolution is a sacrifice of the present to the future”
“To
all that is terrible in the words “civil war”, “dictatorship”,
“intolerance”, “terror”, must be added the unleashing of anti-social
instincts, the almost total cessation of scientific and artistic
production, an apparent regression in morality, abuses of all sorts;
just think of the victims, victims too many too count.
“But others have said it before us: the
more violent the storm, the shorter it will be. How many are the victims
of the social peace that exists under capitalism? By poverty, by social
diseases (tuberculosis, syphilis, alcoholism, crime, prostitution), by
economic and moral crises, how many lives does it sacrifice
(imperceptibly, for we are used to living in a poisoned atmosphere)
every single day to the domination of the rich? As for wars, an
inevitable consequence of the capitalist system, how many victims do
they create? Certain single days of slaughter in the recent war [World
War I] may have cost humanity more lives than were lost by three years
of revolution in a country of 140 million inhabitants.
“Every revolution is a sacrifice of the
present to the future. What is at stake is the future of humanity. Made
necessary by the previous economic and psychological revolution, this
sacrifice conditions future progress. And it would be wholly accurate to
say that it does not add to the total of the victims of what is called
order, of what is in reality domination, both hypocritical and violent,
by powers of conservatism. For none of those who fall on the road of
revolution—none, except a few privileged people who belong to the ruling
class—would have been spared by poverty, by war, by the calamities of
the capitalist order.” – Victor Serge, “The Anarchists and the Experience of the Russian Revolution”
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