V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v9;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

THE PROLETARIAT AND THE PEASANTRY

“Social-Democracy and the Revolutionary Movement of the Peasantry.”

The Attitude of Social-Democracy. K. Kautsky.

(1) Neutrality.

[Inaccurate, but contains a very correct idea.]

(2) The “revolution” will not stop short of expropriation.

Which classes can be the real vehicle of this “revolution”? The proletariat and the poorest peasantry.

Ergo,[126] K. Kautsky assumes the dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasant poor. Such a dictatorship is, in general, a condition for our minimum programme.

The reactionary ideas of the new Iskra-ists on the revolutionary dictatorship.

(α) A proletarian uprising. Then a provisional government and the seizure of power!!

(β) A leader perishes prematurely when in power. (Petrushka’s quotations.)

(γ) The “spontaneous” dictatorship of the proletariat.

(δ) The “opposition party of the future.” Ergo, a tail-endist opposition to the revolution!!

(ε) They evaded a direct answer to Gapon.

The Congress resolution on support for the revolutionary peasant movement. A class party and a class point of view.

Always push the revolutionary democracy forward, without merging with it, preserving a critical position, and arming against reactionary democracy.

A class party and a class point of view do not mean tail-ism—our class is the opposition party—(Martynovism).

—Definition of the tasks of revolutionary democracy and hegemony in the sense of foreseeing the historical contradictions of classes, etc.