Chapter 43: Travels in Germany (III) 5/6
In an apartment on the 17th of June in Berlin, Werther stood outside the door and carefully checked the house number, then reached out and rang the doorbell, and after a while a servant opened them and asked in German: "Sir, is there anything wrong with this late hour?" ”
Apparently the servant's German had confused Werther, and he did not know what the other man was saying, but the servant seemed to understand that the other party was not German, so he politely signaled to the other party, and then turned to call the butler. After a while www.biquge.info, a well-dressed middle-aged man came to the door and asked in French, "Sir, what are you doing here?" ”
Werther replied in French: "Sorry for the interruption in the middle of the night. My name is Vasily. Borisovich. Witte, I would like to inform you of Mr. Bebel's visit from Petersburg. ”
"Okay, sir, please wait a moment, I'll relay it for you." The butler replied politely, and then turned and went into the room, leaving only the servant to look at the young man outside the door with curious eyes. It didn't take long for the butler to return and say, "Sir, please come in, the master is waiting for you in the study on the second floor, please come with me." ”
Werther followed the butler up to the second floor, pushed open a door, and the butler said, "Master, Mr. Werther has arrived." ”
Bebel, who was reading a book in the house, raised his head and looked at it, and then said to the butler: "You go down, if Mr. Werther comes back in the future, there is no need to report it, just bring him over." ”
The butler nodded and went down, Bebel looked at Werther and smiled: "Why should you be restrained, just be your own family." Come, sit here. As he spoke, he gestured to the chair beside him.
"Hello, Mr. Bebel." Witt walked over and sat down and said, "Werther apologizes for disturbing you so late, sir. ”
Bebel smiled: "It doesn't matter, if my guess is correct, Xiaoyou should have just arrived in Berlin." As soon as I arrived, I came to visit the despicable cold house, which shows the sincerity of the little friend. ”
Werther thanked Bebel for his understanding, and then Bebel continued: "Last year, around this time in Britain and Ireland, I also met Mr. Ulyanov here, he is a pure Marxist, and I admire many of his ideas, but I did not expect that now he will be exiled by your government, which is really a tragic thing to say. ”
"Mr. Bebel, everything is fine with Ilyich in Siberia, please don't worry." Witt replied, "I have come this time because I have some ideas that I want to communicate with him, and I hope that he will give him advice. ”
After hearing this, Bebel said: "Well, Mr. Ulyanov's letter also mentions some of your ideas on Marxism, and I appreciate some things after reading them, but I am deeply worried about some places. ”
"Oh, I don't know what it is, please ask for advice." Witt asked respectfully.
Bebel got up and took out a letter from the shelf, took out the stationery inside, then returned to his seat, spread it out in front of Witt and pointed out: "Little friend, please see, Mr. Ulyanov's letter to me emphasized the role of a department called the 'Red Group', and after reading it, I expressed my incomprehension and my heart was also full of deep worry. ”
"Yes, sir, I don't know what the situation is in Germany, but in Russia we have to create such an organization." Witte explained in a sincere tone: "The intelligence organizations of the tsarist regime have infiltrated our Russian Marxist organization in large quantities, and they have sabotaged our activities in a variety of ways, including the placement of undercover agents, the disruption of meetings, and secret assassinations. ”
After hearing this, Bebel thought for a moment and said: "It is in line with the Marxist point of view that each country should carry out its own movement according to its own different circumstances, after all, we cannot let all countries follow the same path, that will be problematic." After saying this, Bebel said slowly: "You are going to establish an all-Russian party organization in Russia, and Mr. Ulyanov has emphasized in his heart that the name of this party organization is the Communist Party, why did you choose it this way?" ”
"Mr. Bebel, the earliest organization established by Marx and Engels is called the 'Communist League,' and the name we have given the organization we are going to establish is 'Communist Party,' which is basically just a tribute to Marx and Engels." "Of course, we are very disgusted with some of the prevailing tendencies in the Social Democratic Party, especially those who adhere to Lassallianism, and this is why we have changed the name 'Communist Party'," Witte said. ”
After hearing this, Bebel sighed and said: "Now the German Social Democratic Labor Party is indeed contrary to what I and Liebknecht had in mind, and this is also the result of too many compromises we made at that time to unite all forces to support the working class, and now I find that even Bernstein has begun to gradually change his original philosophy, which makes me and Liebknecht feel even more lost." ”
"I think these people are opposing Marx under the banner of Marx, and the revision of Marxism they put forward is completely contrary to the original idea of Marxism. If there had been a struggle in parliament, there would have been no struggle in the Paris Commune. I think Mr. Bebel understands this very well. Witt said.
"I understand these things, in 1867 I was a representative of the parliament of the North German Confederation, but there were only one or two workers' representatives in the whole parliament, and most of them were spokesmen for the capitalists and the Junker aristocracy, so how could I fight for the rights of the workers?" Bebel said, "Although the German Empire is now splendid on the surface, what about the inside? How many workers have put in the effort for this and have not been paid their due? So if we want to make the workers better, we can only achieve it by building a state that belongs to the working class. ”
After hearing this, Witte said: "I agree with Mr. Bebel, so I have always believed that only by insisting on struggle, insisting on violent revolution to overthrow the reactionary regime, and to establish a regime in which the poor classes, including the workers, peasants, and urban petty burghers, can fully represent the interests of the majority and serve the majority." After saying that, Witt glanced at the clock time, it was almost eleven o'clock, and said, "Mr. Bebel, it is too late today, and I cannot delay his rest." I'll be here if I'm free. ”
"Xiaoyou's idea is very good." Bebel said, "I really want to talk to Xiaoyou more, but unfortunately time flies too fast, and I didn't expect it to be so late for a while." If you have time, please come back a few more times, we will discuss it seriously, and then I will let you meet a few more people. ”
Werther replied, "Definitely." Then he left the house after greeting Bebel, and left the place and returned to the hotel with the stewardship of Bebel.
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