“The worse, the better” is an old Leninist creed. The nihilistic cynicism that shaped Russia’s miserable 20th century now rules British politics
, the better” is an old Leninist creed. Vladimir Lenin stole the concept from Nikolay Chernyshevsky, a 19th-century Russian author who spelt out his worldview in the novel “What is to be done?”. Lenin read it five times in one summer and named his own manifesto after it. Others are less keen. Martin Amis, an author, labelled it “insuperably talentless” and yet “the most influential novel of all time”. It still is.
Yet cheerleaders applaud the chaos. A market slump is a form of cleansing, on this telling, after years of cheap money. Such turmoil is a “necessary transition” in the view of Allister Heath, a columnist at the, which once prided itself on its bourgeois conservatism but now teems with revolutionary zeal. Mr Heath labelled the Conservative budget on September 23rd the “best I have ever heard”.
Some rebels in the Conservative Party have adopted their own Leninist pose of “revolutionary defeatism”, hoping that things will go so badly that the ruling classes can be overthrown. “During a reactionary war a revolutionary class cannot but desire the defeat of its government,” wrote Lenin in 1915. Grumpy “One Nation” Tories make for an unlikely vanguard but given the shocking state of the polls they may move against Ms Truss sooner rather than later.
The current woes of the Conservatives have been cheered on by some revolutionary veterans of Vote Leave, including those who went into government under Boris Johnson. “This is a great moment,” tweeted Mr Cummings when Mr Johnson was booted from office, even though he helped run the 2019 general-election campaign which won the Conservatives an 80-seat majority. “They’re truly screwed. The challenge is ‘plough the Tories into the earth like Carthage’”.
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