#nechaev

[platonicpolycule]

Sergei Nechaev was really the definition of gaslight gatekeep girlboss to be so honest

[russia-libertaire]

Sergei Nechaev

'Sergei Nechaev preached that the revolutionary was someone who had "broken every tie with the civil order ... and with the ethics of this world," and he put his concept into practice. He set up a secret society, persuading its other members that it was but one cell of a vast network, whose sole representative among them was himself. He visited Switzerland, where, on the strength of his fabrications, he persuaded Bakunin to part with a good deal of money he had been saving for revolutionary purposes. Back in Russia, he alleged to his followers that one of their number was a police spy and that they must murder him. They did so, and after a police investigation Nechaev was brought to trial in 1872 - a trial which the authorities decided to hold openly, in the expectation that the evidence presented would awaken public repugnance toward the revolutionaries. In fact, as it turned out, the newspaper reports inspired many young people with admiration for Nechaev's courage, for his single-mindedness, and even for his break with conventional morality. Others, however, rejected his example with abhorrence, as one which would pervert the fine aims of the movement.'

Russia and the Russians, by Geoffrey Hosking

[vidvomusic247us-blog]

(Dmc.Nesterchuk)

[elbajonazo]

[elbajonazo]

[ser-parasi-y-para-lamuerte]

El revolucionario es un condenado de antemano. No debe tener ni relaciones pasionales, ni cosas o seres amados. Debería despojarse hasta de su nombre. Todo en él ha de concentrarse en una sola pasión: la revolución.

Necháiev, Serguei. Catecismo de un revolucionario.

[we-are-revolting-blog]

The revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no personal interests, no affairs, sentiments, attachments, property, not even a name of his own. Everything in him is absorbed by one exclusive interest, one thought, one passion -- the revolution.

Nechaev and Bakunin, Catechism of the Revolutionist, 1869