The third section
The
third section consists of those whose standard of living is falling. Many in
this section, who originally belonged to better-off families, are undergoing a
gradual change from a position of being barely able to manage to one of living
in more and more reduced circumstances. When they come to settle their accounts
at the end of each year, they are shocked, exclaiming, "What? Another
deficit!" As such people have seen better days and are now going downhill
with every passing year, their debts mounting and their life becoming more and more
miserable, they "shudder at the thought of the future". They are in
great mental distress because there is such a contrast between their past and
their present. Such people are quite important for the revolutionary movement;
they form a mass of no small proportions and are the left-wing of the petty
bourgeoisie. In normal times these three sections of the petty bourgeoisie
differ in their attitude to the revolution. But in times of war, that is, when
the tide of the revolution runs high and the dawn of victory is in sight, not
only will the left-wing of the petty bourgeoisie join the revolution, but the
middle section too may join, and even tight-wingers, swept forward by the great
revolutionary tide of the proletariat and of the left-wing of the petty bourgeoisie,
will have to go along with the "evolution." We can see from the
experience of the May 30th Movement [9]
of 1925 and the peasant movement in various places that this conclusion is
correct.
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