Vasily Vasilyevich Rozanov. Fallen leaves (№ 289308)

As the cancer grows and all the breaks themselves, destroys everything, and sucking force of the body, and there is no force to stop her: so socialism. It's an exhausting dream, unfeasible, hopeless, but which absorbs all the living forces in himself, the youth, the schoolboy, the schoolgirl. It fascinates the most ideal in their composition: and drags the unfortunates to the gallows - while they are convinced that they brought happiness. And in one generation, and another, third. How long has she been dragged to the gallows, and everyone loves her. "The dream of total happiness in the midst of General unhappiness." Yes: but it is the dream of happiness, but not happiness. And it is even the opposite of slow, engineering work on happiness.
- You need to dig the ditch and orosite hungry steppe.
- No, why: we sit in the hungry steppe and dream about how the children of our great-grandchildren will fly through the air on wings, and then it will be easy to fly even to distant watering hole.