V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v38;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

NOTE ON THE ARTICLE IN THE JOURNAL
“THE ECONOMIST” AND PRELIMINARY DRAFTS
FOR THE ARTICLE “AUTOCRACY AND THE PROLETARIAT”
[Later than December 24, 1904]

NB “The Economist”¹, 24 XII 04.
“Weakness in high places”*—an interesting article
(very, very much so!) on Russian affairs, on the worthlessness of a weak
autocrat.
A most characteristic point of view of a bourgeois, dissatisfied with
irresolution, vacillation: now to prison, now to parliament
for a speech, now repression, now caress... He is not against the bureaucracy,
but it must know how to rule.
The foreign bourgeoisie on the Russian autocracy
Cf. excerpt from “The Times”²
\
V 22 XII 04.
² ³
1) The collapse of the game with tsarism is developing...
2) Military collapse is imminent...
\
ad 1—some people eager to revise our old Social-Democratic tactics
had not yet managed to concoct a new tactic, counting on the fearlessness of the Zemstvo men, when the smoke had already cleared...

* — “Weakness in high places”