V. I. Lenin

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Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

“ONCE AGAIN THE LIBERATION LEAGUE, ONCE AGAIN THE NEW ISKRA TREND” OR “REVOLUTION AND DICTATORSHIP”.

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“The concept of revolution and the slogan of dictatorship”

1) New material:
U U
71 – 2 ((Liberation League]) and
U U 102 – 3 [Iskra]).
2) Liberal]
“realism” and S[ocial] D[emocratic] “realism” (U 102)
[Mr. Struve praised]. Praises of
Struve.
Our pamphlet by E[ngels] will appear 6).

bis) The flippancy of Martynov’s evasions... He does not attack the res[olution] of the 3rd C[ongre]ss.
3) “(Lenin) substituted the concepts of rev[oluti]on and d[i]c[t]a[t]o[r]ship”
(U 102, p[.] 3, col[umn] 2) 7).
4) Struve on rev[oluti]on in U 71
“rev[oluti]on m[u]st become the g[overnmen]t”) 8).
5) Struve’s backwardness: Shipovism — c[on]st[itut]ion — rev[o]l[uti]on — democratic d[i]c[t]a[t]o[r]ship??
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( with us — socialist d[i]c[t]a[t]o[r]ship. (
6) Martynov again and again does not underst[and] the difference between the Liberation League slogans and ours... Inability to lead the rev[o]l[uti]on and carry it further by means of (or: in the direction of) the slogan: dictatorship.
7) M[arx] and E[ngels] in 1848 on “dictatorship”. Rev[oluti]onary] g[overnmen]t and d[i]c[t]a[t]o[r]ship.
A vulgar concept of dictatorship and Marx 9). I. * I.
I. [Liberal] Why do liberal realists praise “realists” of the social-democratic ?
II. A new “deepening of the question” by Com[rade] M[a]rt[y]n[o]v.
III. A vulgar depiction of dictatorship and the Marxist view of it.

*) Here and below (as in document “e”) the figures denote the pages of the manuscript of the pamphlet “Two Tactics of Social-Democracy in the Democratic Revolution”.
2) The “new paragraph” outlined here was included as a “Postscript” to the pamphlet “Two Tactics” under the same title as that given to the note quoted here: “Once Again the Liberation League, Once Again the New Iskra Trend”.
This “postscript” is divided into three sections, each with its own title, which, with minor deviations, repeat the titles outlined by Lenin at the end of document “e” (p. 319, lines below the line), namely:
I. Why do bourgeois-liberal realists praise “realists” of the social-democratic.
II. A new “deepening” of the question by Comrade Martynov.
III. A vulgar-bourgeois depiction of dictatorship and Marx’s view of it.
8) Reference is to Struve’s article signed “P. S.” “The Triumph of Common Sense” in No. 72 of “Osvobozhdeniye” of June 21 (8), 1905.
4) Das nicht sofort dictatorisch vorgeht — that he did not proceed dictatorially. Words of Marx (more precisely of the N. R. Gazette), taken from Mehring’s introduction to Vol. III of “The Legacy” (Russian transl., 1926, p. 53) and quoted by Lenin in the pamphlet “Two Tactics”.
(Works, Vol. VIII, p. 119).
These words referred specifically not to Hansemann (as stated in Lenin’s note), but to Camphausen (as stated in Lenin’s final text).
8) Reference is to: from No. 71 of “Osvobozhdeniye”, of May 31 (18), 1905, article signed Pyotr Struve “How to Find Oneself”; from No. 72 of “Osvobozhdeniye”, of June 21 (8), article signed N—ch “The Split in Russian Social-Democracy” and P. Struve “The Russian Revolution and Peace (An Open Letter to Jean Jaurès)”; from No. 102 of “Iskra”, of June 28 (15), article by Martynov “In Struggle with the Marxist Conscience”; from No. 103 of “Iskra”, of July 4 (June 21), conclusion of the same article by Martynov. An analysis of the content of the said articles according to the plan outlined in document “e” constituted the content of the “Postscript” to the pamphlet “Two Tactics”.
6) Reference to the forthcoming publication by “Proletary” of Engels’ pamphlet “The Bakuninists at Work”.
7) Words of Martynov from his article in No. 72 of “Iskra”. (Note 3.)
8) In No. 72 of “Osvobozhdeniye”, of June 21 (8), 1905, and not in No. 71, as erroneously indicated by Vladimir Ilyich, in the article signed Pyotr Struve, “The Russian Revolution and Peace (An Open Letter to Jean Jaurès)”, it says: “After unheard-of defeats, peace with Japan can be concluded only by a strong government; only a government of radical reforms can be strong, therefore, for the conclusion of peace, i.e., for the solution of the fundamental question of foreign policy, as well as for the internal pacification of the country, revolution must become the government in Russia.”
9) This point, like the corresponding lines in document “d”, outlined the content of Section III of the “Postscript” to the pamphlet “Two Tactics”. In this section, Vladimir Ilyich used numerous notes from articles by Marx and Engels of 1848, which he made in the document reproduced by us on pp. 255 – 257.