Nomakadebona oke wagijima kweZimnyama waphinde waba yiphini lomqeqeshi, uTeboho Moloi, naye wakugxeka okwenziwa kuGabuza ngabalandeli. UMicho uthe uGabuza ubaluleke kakhulu eqenjini lakhe futhi abanye abadlali bayazifela ngaye. What is especially problematic about thinking of history as a procession is that it can become demobilizing. We can start to believe that the outcome of history is foretold - that socialism is guaranteed by the mere passing of the years. This evolutionary manner of thinking about history is very different from a Leninist understanding of the importance of active engagement, of seizing the moment. And "seizing the moment" doesn't always mean hurtling into an adventurist offensive - seizing the moment might require making a decisive retreat (as Lenin recognized, for instance, in 1918). A decisive retreat can be turned into a longer term victory (that's the story of the Chinese Communist Party's Long March). And history doesn't always move from its most advanced point, which is why Lenin could call for an offensive on the weakest link in the imperialist chain (Russia and not the much more developed Germany).