3594. But even though the system of bribery and corruption
we have all received from our ancestors is so faulty, it works in its own
cumbersome incompetent way. But the revolutionaries, after they sweep this
system aside, plan to replace it with what? They plan to replace it with stacks
of mimeographed and printed manifestos.
3595. They have created printed manifestos by the thousands
over the last hundred years, when they weren’t throwing bombs at my father and
my grandfather, and those manifestoes are just a lot of confused and
contradictory childish thinking. No political manifesto has ever delivered food
to a starving province.
3596. No, General Kutuzov, the solution to Russia’s problems
is to be found in its transportation system, and our problems stem from our
lack of one. Only such a system can bring food to the far reaches of my empire,
and only the locomotive can make the product of the industrial class find a
market.
3597. I am no fool, and I know my government can be swept
aside in a tidal wave of violence. I have read accounts of the French
revolution, it was very interesting, let me tell you.
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