The Red Pyramid Sets Its Baleful Eye on Us

American Thinker ^ | 9 Dec, 2021 | Naya Lekht

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"Tell me who Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was," Yura, a character in Vladimir Sorokin's short story "The Red Pyramid," asks a man who mysteriously appears at a train station. The stranger responds, "The man who called forth the pyramid of the red roar." The pyramid, the man continues, is the "source of the endless red roar." Visible to a select few, it "emits a different kind of sound wave" in order to "infect the world to destroy mankind's intrinsic structure."

Sorokin, a modern Russian writer, who in this short story takes on the subject of communism and its legacy in modern Russia, may also be warning all who indulge in revolutionary ideations.

It is no coincidence that Sorokin spotlights Lenin and his seminal role in hastening the Bolshevik Revolution. A wily figure, Lenin studied the Marxist doctrine carefully yet veered from Marx's recipe for revolution. In short, according to Marx's theory of historical materialism, there are stages that a civilization must surpass in order to achieve "stateless communism." Simply put, they are feudalism, capitalism, socialism, and finally communism. An essential transition from capitalism to socialism is the development of "class consciousness" — that is, the idea that workers become conscious of sharing common grievances against capitalists and organically develop an awareness of themselves as forming a social class opposed to the bourgeoisie. Only then will they overthrow the capitalists.

But Imperial Russia was a singular case. There never was a feudal system. Moreover, Russia never moved on to capitalism. Lenin understood this well and, using Russia's unique case, vociferously urged skipping over the capitalist stage to hasten the revolution.

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You can hear the perpetual Red Roar of the woke transgender nanny state.

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A sobering read.