Document serves as a plan for the article "Should We Organize the Revolution," printed on February 24 (8), 1905 in No. 6 of "Vperyod" (Soch., vol. VII, pp. 422-429.)
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OUR TRAPOCHKINS. THE END (FIASCO*) OF THE
TRAPOCHKINS. THE CONFUSERS ARE CONFUSED*.
[February 1905]
1. Parvus on commanding from Geneva, on the idea of "organizing
agitators" 2).
2. Good Parvus.
3. Then and now...3) — True!!!
4. Not all [ideas] thoughts 4). — Of course!!!
5. "Organize
revolution." "Utopian centralism."
6. Organization bis, ter... 5) — c(Organization-process>> 6)Г
7. "To raise the uprising under a given slogan" 7) — and Marty-
nov??
8. Organization
not hundreds of thousands, but a "binding
Ferment" 8) ------------------a professional] revolutionaries?
a 3 — 4 — 5 congresses??? 9)
9. "Throw overboard" 10) disputants or disorganizers?
dull-witted Martynovs and the rag-like Martovs led by them on a leash.
"[Ten] A hundred people who have adopted an organization-plan, mea- )
n more than a thousand who chatter about organizatio- [
n-process."
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1 In his variations of the title of the plan and in the article, Lenin uses
the image of Tryapichkin to characterize the Novoiskra correspondences.
"Friend Tryapichkin" in Gogol's "The Inspector General." Tryapichkins are in Shchedrin,
"own correspondents" of the newspaper "Krasa Demidrona." (Soch. M. E. Saltykov (Shchedrin), ed. 1889, vol. III, p. 527.)
*) "Fiasco" is inscribed by Vladimir Ilyich above the word "End." Ed.»

OUR TRAPOCHKINS. THE END (FIASCO) OF THE TRAPOCHKINS
2)
In the article "Should We Organize the Revolution," Lenin wrote:
"In the Russian party, according to the well-known Nakhichevan social democrat Parvus, "fundamental disagreements" have arisen. The primary political task of the proletarian party became the struggle against the extremes of centralism, against the idea of "commanding" the workers from somewhere in Geneva, with the exaggeration of the idea of organizing agitators, organizing leaders. Such was the deep, firm, and unwavering conviction of the Menshevik Parvus, as stated by him in his weekly German paper "Aus
der Weltpoiitik" ("From the Field of World Politics") of November 30, 1903."
(Soch. vol. VII, p. 122.).
3)
After January 9, when the party's unpreparedness to play a leading role in the events was revealed, Parvus, in contrast to his previous statements, wrote in No. 85 of "Iskra" in the article "Results and Prospects": "the tragic consequences of the lack of organization made themselves felt." (Ibid.)
4) The editors of "Iskra" accompanied Parvus's article with this note: "not all the thoughts expressed by Comrade Parvus are shared by the editors of
"Iskra."
5) Bis, ter — twice, thrice.
6) These words refer to Rosa Luxemburg's feuilleton "Organizational Issues of Russian Social Democracy," under her signature in No. 69
of "Iskra," dated July 23 (10), 1904. In 1904, R. Luxemburg supported
the organizational views of the Mensheviks.
7) Parvus's words from his article are quoted.
8) Parvus's words: "we can create an organization that would be a binding Ferment, and at the moment of the revolution would unite around
itself these hundreds of thousands." In connection with these words, Lenin says: "Finally, we hear the voice of a Social Democrat who is not groveling before
the rearguard of the revolution and fearlessly pointing to the task of supporting
the vanguard of the revolution." (Soch. vol. VII, p. 123.)
9) See note 16, p. 90.
10)
Parvus, — says Lenin, — "ends his excellent article with the excellent advice to "throw overboard" the disorganizers."