PETTY-BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIAN SOCIALISM
6.
PETTY-BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIAN
SOCIALISM.
In Europe the predominance is complete of marxism in theory and
of the working movement in the practice of socialism.
This was not always so. Both of these developed in a long process of development from "nebulous" spots.
The epoch of the democratic revolution in Europe was distinguished by the dominance of petty-bourgeois socialism (Proudhonism, true socialism, Mühlberger, Dühring etc.) in various forms.
Idem in Russia. The history of the Russian] revolutionary movement is at the same time the history of the struggle of the old, "Russian," petty-bourgeois socialism (Populism) with marxism.
The Central point of this struggle = misunderstanding] of the actual
character of the revolution] taking place, misunderstanding] of the actual content] of the peasant
movement.
The pearl of this misunderstanding = No. 75 of Revolutionary] [Russia] "Why not immediately?".
Why the peasant against the landlord, and not "immediately"?
This small] quotation = an abyss of Populist] stupidities.
Historical moment = the change from serfdom to cap[ita-
l]ism. Assessment of landlord farming].
Landlord farming] = capitalism.
(Landlord harvests are higher.)
Assessment of the internal] structure of peasant farming].
"9/10 of the laboring peasantry = petty-bourgeois element."
All landlord farms] are higher than peasant farms].
The satisfaction of peasant demands would delay the proletarianization of the peasants.

confiscation] is the antechamber to socialization.
Confiscation is the real struggle of the democratic layer
of landowners against the reactionary].
Socialization is a petty- bourgeois absurd reactionary] utopia.
Two social wars. "Why not immediately."
Independent socialist party of the prole- taria]t — its leadership in the democratic revolution].

1) Thus begins the above-mentioned article in "Revolutionary Russia."
2) In 1888, the Literary-Political Collection "Social Democrat" was published.
3)
In 1897, N. Lenin's brochure "The Tasks of Russian Social Democracy" with a preface by P. Axelrod was published. Published by the "Emancipation of Labor" Group. (Works, vol. II, pp. 167-190.)
4) Lenin's article: "The Workers' Party and the Peasantry," - "Iskra" No. 3, April 1901 (Works, vol. IV, pp. 100-106.)
5) A quotation from the article "Orthodox Marxists and the Peasant Question." ("Revolutionary Russia" No. 75.)
6) With this question, the author of the article in "Revolutionary Russia" turns to the Marxists, taking advantage of the letter "From the District Organizer to the Central Committee regarding the resolution of the Third Congress of the R.S.-D.R.P." (Works, vol. VIII, p. 183.), which says: "Can Social Democracy support the expropriation of those landlord lands that are cultivated in an intensive manner!"