HONEYED SPEECHES
The intelligentsia and dealers... The big bourgeoisie.
The petty bourgeoisie greater radicalism
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greater fragmentation
— greater importance of intellectual “leaders”.
Freedom of language – freedom of groupings – substantiation on social force kommt später 3)...
“Realpolitik” in the huckstering – and in the materialistic sense 4).
HONEYED SPEECHES.
The program of organized liberals 5).
“The people must take the resolution of the crisis into their own hands”... * *
The people “together with other social groups” 6). (NB)
Convening of a constituent assembly (by whom?)
The monarchy — not a peep neither for nor against!
Separation of church and state (nihil)
“Liberation of church societies from state tutelage.”
And from state financial assistance?!
“Popular representation.”
One chamber? Nihil.
“Cultural self-determination of nationalities,” but not political!
Financial reform: “gradually”...
“Rejection of patronage of individual enterprises and entrepreneurs and increased patronage of the development of the productive forces of the people...
“Flourishing of industry.”
Agrarian program “allotment”... of what? with compensation to the owners.
Lease right... but not the right to lower the lease “in the interests of the workers”.
Right to strike etc. for workers. NBNB

Labor legislation...
Factory inspection (“for all types of popular labor”).
8-hour workday.
Abolition of overtime work.
Protection of the labor of women and children.
Conciliation chambers...
Compensation for injured workers.
State insurance.
“These decisions are binding only insofar as political conditions are unchanged.”
-------“temporary and conditional element” 8)
-------“realpolitik”.
... “More than enough”),.. 9)
1) The text of the article says that the program of the “Union of Liberation” is presented “deliberately not in the form of a precise formulation of specific demands, but in the form of a literary, approximate description of them”. Works, vol. VII, p. 345.)
Inde — hence.
2) Euphemism is the conscious substitution of some words for others, embellishment.
3) Commt später — comes later.
4) The article analyzes the concept of “realpolitik” used by Struve. (Works, vol. VII, pp. 340 and 345.)
5) The program of the “Union of Liberation” was published in the newspaper “Novosti” on April 18 (5), 1905 and in “Osvobozhdenie” No. 69-70, dated May 20 (7), 1905.
6) “The «Union of Liberation» finds that the severe external and internal crisis experienced by Russia has now become so acute that the people must take the resolution of this crisis into their own hands, together with other social groups that have opposed the existing regime.” (Works, vol. VII, p. 342.)
7) From the words “Lease right” to “state insurance” inclusive, the article is not used. All the listed points are taken from the program of the “Union of Liberation”.
8) The quoted expressions are quotations from the program of the “Union of Liberation”. Vladimir Ilyich accompanies them in the article with the following words: “This reservation makes it clear beyond any doubt that in the name of huckstering («real») politics, the members of the «Union of Liberation» will abandon very, very many of their democratic demands”... “their program is a simple request, taking into account in advance the inevitable «discount on the price», depending on the «firmness» of one or another warring party.” (Works, vol. VII, p. 345.)
9) Vladimir Ilyich cites Struve’s reasoning that the programs of the “Union of Liberation” are “more than enough for a party setting itself the goals of realpolitik.” (Ibid.)