"It is the tradition of the oppressed in which the working class enters the stage as the final enslaved, avenging and liberating class... For both are nourished by the true image of enslaved ancestors rather than by the ideal image of liberated descendants. At the beginning of the Russian Revolution this awareness was still alive. The motto āno glory for the victor, no sympathy for the defeatedā is so poignant because it expresses solidarity with the dead brothers rather than with future generations" - Walter Benjamin
