WHAT IS TO BE DONE?

In 1927, a writer about Russia’s October 1917 revolution asked, “How often has it happened in the past - it will probably happen again - that a small and relatively insignificant proportion of a population swept out an honest and irresolute majority by appealing nakedly to primitive instincts and elemental passions?

Too often, of course, and too recently - 2008. The ‘winner’ of the 1917 revolution, Lenin, won the empire with his oratory and 5 simple but powerfully appealing words, “ bread, land, peace, factories and power.”

Obama swept himself into office with TOTUS eloquence and the dynamic duo of “hope and change.” Were are we going? As the ‘loser’ in the Communist revolution, Trotsky said, “What is to be done?”