...Narodnaya Volya trend. The founders of scientific socialism had a different view of the seizure of power. "The worst thing that can befall a leader of an extreme party," says Engels ". . . is to be compelled to take over a government in an epoch when the movement is not...

...his cause immeasurably in the months to come. 8 The Burden of Political Opportunity: April-July 7977 The worst thing that can befall a leader of an extreme...an epoch when the movement is not yet ripe for the realization of the measures which that domination would imply. . . . What he can do is in contrast...

..."The worst thing that can happen to the leader of an extremist party is to be forced to take over the government in an epoch when the movement is not yet ripe for domination by the class he represents and for implementation of the measures which this class domination...

...actual danger is present, and that is, in any event, ahead of its normal time. [Such an event would be] the worst thing that can befall a leader of an extreme party ... to be compelled to take over a government in an epoch when the movement is not yet ripe for the...

...and Results and Prospects, Pathfinder Press, New York 1970.) 19. 'The worst thing that can befall the leader of an extreme party is to be compelled to take...domination of the class which he represents and for the realization of the measures which that domination would imply' (Frederick Engels, The Peasant War in...

...exhausted by the attainment and maintenance of state power. Engels, in a celebrated passage, commented that "the worst thing that can befall a leader of an extreme...yet ripe for the domination of the class which he represents."5 This passage should not be used as glib judgment of the Russian Revolution; rather it...

...coat-tails and stop him', Ryazanov said in the debate. Sedmoi Sye^d RKP, p. 9. 96. Ibid., p. 85. 97. 'The worst thing that can befall a leader of an extreme...domination of the class which he represents and for the realization of the measures which that domination would imply ... he necessarily finds himself in a...

...Lenin. Vladimir H'ich, 1870-1924. I. Title. DK266.5.L4513 2005 The worst thing that can befall the leader of an extreme party is to be compelled to take...domination of the class which he represents, and for the realization of the measures which that domination implies. . . . Thus he necessarily finds himself...

...The new rulers must resort to expediency and coercion or go down fighting. Engels saw the problem: "The worst thing that can befall a leader of an extreme...for the domination of the class which he represents. . . . He is compelled to represent not his party or his class, but the class for whose domination the...

...in his book Peasant War in Germany, Friedrich Engels had warned/'The worst thing that can befall the leader of an extreme party is to be compelled to take over a government in an epoch when the moment is not yet ripe for the domination of the class he represents and for the realization of the...