V. I. Lenin

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PLANS FOR THE PAMPHLET “PLEKHANOV AND THE NEW ISKRA”

3 Plekhanov and the New Iskra I. Instead of an Introduction. A Little Addition to the Analysis of the Intellectual Superman 764. 1. Began the polemical pamphlet with solidarity. “Superman”. So!!* 2. Lack of character. Has grown wiser. A renegade is boastful.

A braggart, “The Darling” 765. Factions of renegades. To be hypocritical...

II. The Question of a Provisional Revolutionary Government. (.) Unnecessary quibbles. 1. Philosophy: “carefree”. Contra Orthodox 766. 2. — “rudeness” and hypocrisy. 3. Where was Engels’s letter printed? 4. Martynov and “What Is To Be Done?” Cf. Second Congress 767. 5. Lenin — “alone”. A dirty gossip against the emigration. 6. A dialectician? “I am not a Marxist” 768. .) References to Marx and Engels. (Marx) “Virtuoso of philistinism” 769.

Does not admit the thought or does not pose the question. “Situation” 770 (Swindling 771). (Engels) Letter to Turati 1848 and 1894.

Jaurèsism (cf. No. 14 of Vperyod).

Substitution of words and distinction of positions. Dialectics or a trick?

Jeer at dialectics.

Objective task — democratic or socialist revolution?

* — So!! Ed.

(Engels) The Bakuninists.

General question, is a provisional government admissible?

Participation in general? “In the minority” distorts my thought “Correlation of forces” “Where were we against a provisional government?” 772 (Ha-ha.) Desecration from above and from below 773 Connection with insurrection (cf. 1873 and 1848) principle or expediency? 774 Got entangled: Unthinkable No. 2 of Diary. Contra Zarya No. 1.

Impermissible ibid.* Iskra No. 74-75.

Present-day formulation in Russia.

Insurrection? Its organ? “Invented the dictatorship” 775. Is that all? — the crux of the question.

The Odessa “seizure” 776. Taxes? One city?

Revolutionary communes? “The leader perished” (“Pedants”).

Petty bourgeoisie reactionary and revolutionary.

Petty bourgeoisie and peasantry.

Confusion of democratic and socialist revolution.

K. Kautsky on Millerand.

K. Kautsky on the “victory” of the Russian revolution, on the rule of the proletariat.

Resolutions of congresses and the polemics of the superman. ..** = got entangled.

* — ibidem — same place. Ed.

** — Summa summarum — general total. Ed.

III. How, When and Why Did Comrade Plekhanov Get Entangled?

History of the split.

(1) 1901-1903 (5) 1-8. 1904

(2) Second Congress (6) 8. 1904-V.

(3) 8-11. 1903 1905

(4) Attempt at (7) V. 1905 reconciliation (8) Now* 777 1. Second Congress. § 1 — and moral responsibility. 2. Letter of 6.X.1903 778 and opinion of Deutsch (minutes of the League) 779. 3. “What Not to Do” 780 cf. “Steps”. anarchism Jaurèsism 4. Zemstvo plan. “Conspiratorial pamphlet” 781. 5. No. 85 and Trotsky’s pamphlet 782. Corrections. 6. “Organisational fog” 783. Partiality to Iskra or got entangled with Iskra?

Spread fog. “Conspiratorialism”. Editorial Board? (No. 2 of Diary of a Social-Democrat). § 1? 7. Tactical I. Organisational lie fog and tactical truth??

II. Opportunist wing of the party??

IV. How Plekhanov Wrote History in the New Iskra? 784 1. “What Is To Be Done?” Fabrications. Cf. K. Kautsky. 2. — Fruits of demagogy. 3. Programme. “Not Lenin”. Document 785. 4. Promise given in Vperyod. 2 main controversial points in the programme. 5. Letter about Proletary and “Martynovism”. 6. .. = Lie.

* — At the present time. Ed.

V. Conclusion. A Few Words Against Exaggeration of the Differences. 1. Repetition from “Steps” about Axelrod*. 2. Small mistakes and great men. 3. Cf. Bebel and 1895 Breslauer Debatten** 786. 4. Bebel in Breslau and K. Kautsky contra his “tone”. 5. As long as Plekhanov does not free himself from the legacy of the New Iskra, he will confuse and falsify.