We of the older generation may not live to see the decisive battles of this coming revolution. But I can, I believe, express the confident hope that the youth which is working so splendidly in the socialist movement of Switzerland, and of the whole world, will be fortunate enough not only to fight, but also to win, in the coming proletarian revolution.
Amusingly enough, earlier in the speech he mocked this dude:
“There is not yet a revolutionary people in Russia,” wrote Mr. Pyotr Struve, then leader of the Russian liberals and publisher abroad of an illegal, uncensored organ, two days before “Bloody Sunday”.
Lenin, in January 1917:
Amusingly enough, earlier in the speech he mocked this dude:
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Yeah - even the "confident hope" here was because this was an anniversary speech, and not a letter to a comrade.