Reading on the Train

I'm currently reading a biography on Joseph Stalin. As I was reading a chapter while riding the train home from work, a passage caught my eye, and I felt like sharing it with you. It's a piece Stalin wrote for the paper, Rabochi put ('The Workers' Way').

Rabochi put was the successor to Pravda and was under Stalin's editorial control in October of 1917.

Here is the editorial:

The existing government of landlords and capitalists must be replaced by a new government, a government of workers and peasants.

The existing pseudo-government which was not elected by the people and which is not accountable to the people must be replaced by a government recognised by the people, elected by representatives of the workers, soldiers and peasants and held accountable to their representatives.

The Kishkin-Konovalov government should be replaced by a government of soviets of workers', soldiers', and peasants' deputies.

It just kind of struck a chord in me as I sat there looking out the window of the train, watching the world go by.