Duty to those whom he loved and for whom he worked: the proletariat, the creators, the exploited, the oppressed of the world, for whose sufferings his heart was full of sympathy, and in whom he proudly recognized the revolutionary fighters, the builders of a higher order of society. Duty to him, who taught us, by theory and action, that the revolutionary will could consciously mold what was historically necessary and developed. But I feel it my duty to publish some extracts from the treasury of my personal recollections of our unforgettable leader and friend. I find it difficult to carry personal matters into public notice. For the workers, those sacrificed to wealth who, like the Canadians in Seume's poem, are unaware of "the surface civility of the old world" - we may add, the conventional lies and hypocrisies of the bourgeois world - distinguish with a fine and instinctive sensibility between the genuine and the false, between real greatness and overbearing conceit, between unselfish, fruitful love and the desire for popularity reflecting nothing but vanity. The harmony of greatness, as leader and as man, was impressed on Lenin's features, and "enshrined him forever in the great heart of the world proletariat," that glorious destiny assigned by Marx to the fighters of the Commune. In this hour of grief, when all of us realize with the deepest personal sorrow that we have suffered an irreparable loss, there arises the luminous, living memory of one who revealed, in the great leader, the great man. Transcribed & marked up October 2012 by Martin Fahlgren for the Marxists’ Internet Archive. Source Reminiscences of Lenin, Ppamphlet pubised by International Publishers 1934. Clara Zetkin Reminiscences of Lenin (January 1924)
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