Anyone know where i can find this?

[ComradeR]

Hey does anyone know where i can get a hold of a copy of "The Catechism of the Revolutionary" by Sergei Nechayev? I hear it was very influintual to Lenin, but i can't find the damn thing anywhere and google searches only keep bringing up references to it.

[Leo]

Hey does anyone know where i can get a hold of a copy of "The Catechism of the Revolutionary" by Sergei Nechayev?

"The Catechism of the Revolutionary" is a sick book written by a sick mind. It has nothing to do at all with workers struggle. You should be able to find it in the internet, I think the proper title was something like "Revolutionary Catechism".

[Tekun]

Leo, I realize that in his book Nechayez doesn't focus on the workers struggle but rather on the entire, but rather irrational notion of "the ends justify the means" as a means to destroy the current state and society
But, what else makes it so sick? I've never read of it, so Im in the dark about this one? :mellow:

[Taiga]

I can't understand why you couldn't find it :wacko:
This is the very first result of my Google search: http://www.spunk.org/texts/places/russia/sp000116.txt
I've compared it to the original Russian version of The Catechism and can assure you that it's the Nechayev's Catechism for sure.
It's also on the Marxists.org : http://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/...v/catechism.htm (http://www.marxists.org/subject/anarchism/nechayev/catechism.htm)

BTW, shouldn't it be in the Literature subforum? :unsure:

[Leo]

Leo, I realize that in his book Nechayez doesn't focus on the workers struggle but rather on the entire, but rather irrational notion of "the ends justify the means" as a means to destroy the current state and society
But, what else makes it so sick?

Here's some quotes, you decide;


All the gentle and enervating sentiments of kinship, love, friendship, gratitude, and even honor, must be suppressed in him and give place to the cold and single-minded passion for revolution.


The revolutionary can have no friendship or attachment, except for those who have proved by their actions that they, like him, are dedicated to revolution. The degree of friendship, devotion and obligation toward such a comrade is determined solely by the degree of his usefulness to the cause of total revolutionary destruction.


When a comrade is in danger and the question arises whether he should be saved or not saved, the decision must not be arrived at on the basis of sentiment, but solely in the interests of the revolutionary cause. Therefore, it is necessary to weigh carefully the usefulness of the comrade against the expenditure of revolutionary forces necessary to save him, and the decision must be made accordingly.

Initially, I think this "revolutionary catechism" is dehumanizing the revolutionary, turning the revolutionary into some kind of robot, where actually the revolutionary, the real revolutionary is, or at least should be the most human element of the society.