Sergey Nechayev

Quotes

• “The revolutionary despises public opinion. He despises and hates the existing social morality in all its manifestations. For him, morality is everything which contributes to the triumph of the revolution. Immoral and criminal is everything that stands in its way.”
• “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 women who are completely on our side – i.e., those who are wholly dedicated and who have accepted our program in its entirety. We should regard these women as the most valuable or our treasures; without their help, we would never succeed.”
• “The Society has no aim other than the complete liberation and happiness of the masses – i.e., of the people who live by manual labor. Convinced that their emancipation and the achievement of this happiness can only come about as a result of an all-destroying popular revolt, the Society will use all its resources and energy toward increasing and intensifying the evils and miseries of the people until at last their patience is exhausted and they are driven to a general uprising.”
• “Our task is terrible, total, universal, and merciless destruction.”
• “Therefore, in drawing closer to the people, we must above all make common cause with those elements of the masses which, since the foundation of the state of Muscovy, have never ceased to protest, not only in words but in deeds, against everything directly or indirectly connected with the state: against the nobility, the bureaucracy, the clergy, the traders, and the parasitic kulaks. We must unite with the adventurous tribes of brigands, who are the only genuine revolutionaries in Russia.”

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Key facts

Born

Sergei Gennadiyevich Nechaev , ( 1847-10-02 ) 2 October 1847, Ivanovo , Vladimir Governorate , Russian Empire

Died

3 December 1882 (1882-12-03) (aged 35), St. Petersburg , Russian Empire

Known for

Catechism of a Revolutionary Nechayevshchina

Movement

Narodniks , Russian nihilist movement

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