The coming days will reap the fruit of all society’s anxious hopes and all the government’s unfulfilled promises. Political interests have become more defined. The dissatisfaction is more profound and ‘principled’. Yesterday’s vague ideas are today the focus of avid political analysis. Every manifestation of evil and arbitrariness rapidly leads to fundamental issues. No one is frightened off any longer by revolutionary slogans; on the contrary, the slogans echo back and forth a thousand times and are even becoming popular sayings. Like a sponge soaking up water, social consciousness is absorbing every negative word, every condemnation, every curse addressed to absolutism, which can no longer do a single thing with impunity. With every clumsy step, it is held to account. Its advances provoke derision; its threats arouse hatred. The enormous apparatus of the liberal press is every day publicising thousands of disturbing facts that irritate and inflame social consciousness.

Leon Trotsky

Up to the ninth of January

(Published in 1905)

Trotsky in 1905

Source: sometrotskyist

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