Compare with Iskra No. 93, footnote — from below only, and not from above. #

A separate article should be written on this subject. Show that a revolutionary who limits himself in a revolutionary epoch to activity only from below, who refuses pressure from above, eo ipso renounces revolution.

Two types of bourgeois development or revolutionary exit from the serf-owning ancien régime are conceivable:
1) by way of concessions from above, by way of cuts, reductions, subtractions
2) by way of remaking from below, by way of positive introduction of a new order...
zemstvos
political freedom
constitution
revolution
absolutism clad in parliamentary forms
republic.