Book: Technique coup

For Trotsky the problem of the revolution is only a problem of a technical nature. "To capture the modern state," he says, " need shock military units and equipment: groups of armed men under the command of the engineers."

The General strike is an integral part of the uprising: if the Bolsheviks will not be able to rely on a General strike, they will be inadequately protected from the rear and defeated. Speaking of this, Trotsky once called the uprising "a blow to the paralytic". For the victory of the uprising it is necessary that life in Petrograd was paralysed by a General strike.

But Trotsky is smiling, he is calm: "Rebellion is not art," he says, " rebellion is the car. To make it, we need experts-technicians: and nothing can stop it, even the comments of the opponents. Stop it can only technology."

Error of parliamentary democracies is that they rely too much on the conquest of liberty, and meanwhile, in Europe, there is nothing more fragile. This error is due to the contempt for the generals... <...> Regarding the contempt for the generals it is useful to note that just mediocrity in generals ' uniforms pose the greatest threat and that they need to fear most.

The failure of the measures taken or envisaged by governments to prevent a possible attempt of rebellion so extreme that in many European countries there is a real threat of a coup. Features of the modern state, the diversity and complexity of its functions, the severity of political, social and economic problems that it is intended to solve, make it the focus of the weaknesses and anxieties of people, and exacerbate the difficulties associated with his protection. The modern state, to a greater extent than we think, susceptible to the revolutionary danger: after all, governments do not know how to protect him.

To protect the state from fascist or Communist uprising, you need to apply defensive tactics based on the same principles as the tactics of the Nazis and the Communists. In other words, Trotsky should be opposed by Trotsky, and not Kerensky, with its police measures.

Art of the modern state is based on the same principles as the art of his capture...