Proletarian Death Hammer - 3. Arming the Oppressed

Описание: "Theoretically, it would be absolutely wrong to forget that every war is but the continuation of policy by other means. The present imperialist war is the continuation of the imperialist policies of two groups of Great Powers, and these policies were engendered and fostered by the sum total of the relationships of the imperialist era. But this very era must also necessarily engender and foster policies of struggle against national oppression and of proletarian struggle against the bourgeoisie and, consequently, also the possibility and inevitability; first, of revolutionary national rebellions and wars; second, of proletarian wars and rebellions against the bourgeoisie; and, third, of a combination of both kinds of revolutionary war, etc." - Lenin, "The Military Programme of the Proletarian Revolution" (1916).

Outro sample from Warren Beatty's "Reds" (1981), based off of American communist John Reed's book "Ten Days That Shook the World" (1919), which narrates the preparations for the Great October Socialist Revolution and its first days, from the author's participation and POV.

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Instinctive opposition to war
sprouts from the masses.
Ingenuous social-pacifism
soon to break down under a pile of corpses.

Mothers who lose their sons
who were promised social ascension
through their wretched, patriotic war effort,
consisting of killing workers of alien nations.

Another flag-covered casket
returning from a faraway country.
A life sacrificed for the profit
of a ruling class of monstrous exploiters.

Communists double their exposition
of this blatant truth of imperialist war:
By other means, it’s the continuation
of the spoliation of other nations and the poor.

Violent world redistribution,
endless hunger of birds of prey.
Spheres of influence, key resources,
destroy their industry, rebuild and claim.

The masses begin to understand
the true, classist nature of war:
Either to fight for the bourgeoisie,
or to fight for the workers’ control.

The Party banishes the illusions
of the eternity of this exploitative regime.
Our mission is total revolution,
and violent will be our means.

Proletarian thirst for blood,
the law of their submission lays broken.
Expiation of millennia of exploitation,
anger turning into class hatred.

Political maturity checked
in their readiness to follow the commands
of the workers’ military committees
set up by the clandestine followers of Marx.

Social crisis in the metropolis,
violence outbreaks in the slums,
police stations looted by the outcast:
Now they have the numbers and also have guns.

Arming the oppressed, their fear is lost,
millenary suffering quenched in bourgeois blood.
Arming the oppressed, machine gun in hand,
begins the extermination of the social parasites.

The weakest link of the imperialist chain
determined by the state of class struggle.
Where the workers are ready for revolution
the weld is pulverized into oblivion.

Clandestine agitation in the front,
demoralization of the troops sets in.
Undermining the military support
of this putrid world of shit.

Our class enemies waver,
their rear guard not so secured.
Where once were slaves and soldiers
now rises the Red Army of the poor.

Transformation of the imperialist conflict
into a class war waged by the oppressed.
The revolutionary conflagration
serves to the cohesion of the ranks of the reds.

A bloody, purgative, liberation war:
bourgeois forces versus communist workers.
Social-democrats and fascist militias
join forces for defending their order.

Technological supremacy myth destroyed
by a tidal wave of armed masses.
Like acid corroding their iron domes,
saturating their powerless systems.

Our crimson call now echoes
in the workers of the rest of the world,
and in all of the oppressed nations
who feel in themselves the liberator’s call.

We may either win or lose this war,
either we’re decimated or we rise to power,
but the breach will already be open,
other revolutionaries will take over.

A world revolutionary front
under the combined action of the workers
in alliance with the struggling peoples
hungry for peace and for their liberation.

Chauvinists and traitors put to the sword
of the almighty Communist Party.
The iron legions of the proletariat
hammer down the resistance of the exploiters.

Intransigent defense of the arming of the oppressed,
essential bastion of our glorious revolution.
Marxism leads the Party and the Party leads the gun,
apocalyptic end of the bourgeois reign of terror.

Arming the oppressed, their fear is lost,
millenary suffering quenched in bourgeois blood.
Arming the oppressed, machine gun in hand,
begins the extermination of the social parasites.

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from Arming The Oppressed, released May 1, 2026
Political Commissar.