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Tops can't, bottoms don't want

Lenin V.I.

Phraseologism: The tops can't, the bottoms don't want to.

Meaning: To indicate a certain crisis situation in society, when the "tops" (the government) cannot govern in the old way, and the "lower classes" (society, population) cannot live in the old way. It is also used when they want to point out the objective impossibility of initiating any reforms, social processes in the country (joking ironically).

Origin: From the work “May Day of the Revolutionary Proletariat” (1913) by V. I. Lenin (1870-1924): “For a revolution, it is not enough that the lower classes do not want to live as before. It also requires that the upper classes cannot manage and manage, as before". The same idea is also found in The Collapse of the Second International (1915) and Childhood Disease of "Leftism" in Communism (1920). The last work says: "Only when the 'lower classes' do not want the old and when the 'tops' cannot continue in the old way, only then can the revolution win."

Random phraseology:

Prejudice! He is a piece of ancient truth.

Meaning:

It is used as a reminder that one should respectfully respect what now seems absurd, obsolete: perhaps it is a reflection of some deep, relevant truth, it is also possible that the current indisputable truths will seem empty prejudices to future generations.

Origin:

The opening words of the poem "Prejudice" (1842) by the poet Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky (1800-1844).

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