The document presents a plan for the article "Playing at Parliamentarism", published in "Proletary" Ж 48> of 26 (45) September 4905. (Coll. works, Vol. VIII, pp. 2^#— 229.)

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PRE-PARLIAMENTARY CRETINISM *).
[September 1905]
1) Parliamentary cretinism: Marx in 1848.
2) "Old Hats"2). Forward] No. 1, Two Tactics,—
Parvus.
3) Evolution of Parvus: showed promise of correction.
Phrase 3).
After 9 I — government worker!! without the Tsar3).
After 6 VIII — State] Duma without an uprising]! 12)
4) Foma and Yerema with Parvus 4).
Active boycott or a deal?
5) "Agreement of liberals], democrats] and socialdemocrats й).
6) Uprising to defend Milyukov!!!
7) "Our electoral] committees!
8) "Legal basis of political] parties."
9) Candidates — buffoons or "standard-bearers"?
10) "Force" the *Osvobozhdeniye* adherent to be a revolutionary!!
11) "The worse, the better" or "the more confused, the better" 6).
12) Tactic of the German socialdemocracy in 1905 and 1848.
57 years. "Grown wiser."
13) "Obligate [by] specific political] requirements."
Confer resolution of the conference...
14) Agitation and organization].
— not for an uprising?
Central slogan ? ?

PRE-PARLIAMENTARY CRETINISM
NB
Uprising
15) Uprising] — a concrete] slogan7).
[Proletariat] 4848 and 50.
Proletariat: 4869 and 4872.
*) Lenin's article "Playing at Parliamentarism," like the plan printed here, is devoted to an analysis of Parvus's article "Social Democracy and the State Duma," which first appeared as a separate leaflet and then in No. 110 of *Iskra*, dated 23 (10) September 1905. The individual points of the plan successively mark the content of Parvus's article. "Parliamentary cretinism" is an expression that Marx and Engels repeatedly resort to in their historical works. See, for example, p. 70 of Marx's pamphlet *The Eighteenth Brumaire*, published by the Marx and Engels Institute, Giz 1926, or p. 314 of Engels's pamphlet *Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Germany*, M. and E. Works, Vol. III, Giz 1921.
2) "Old hats" is an expression of N. K. Mikhailovsky. Mikhailovsky ridiculed the tendency of the Russian intelligentsia to adopt from Europe what had already been abandoned as old-fashioned in Europe itself.
3) "Without a Tsar and a workers' government!" cried Parvus under the impression of January 9. "Without the people and a liberal Duma!" this is what his current "tactics" amount to after August 6.” (Coll. Works, Vol. VIII, p. 227.)
4) In his article, Parvus, on the one hand, ridiculed the boycott tactic, and on the other hand, stated: “What the workers are not given voluntarily, they must take by force. They must appear en masse at voters' meetings and turn them into workers' meetings. Instead of arguing about whether to elect Ivan [Fomich or Foma Ivanovich, they will put political issues on the agenda.”
5) What is meant is Parvus's call for a formal "agreement" of parties. Parvus even speaks of the need to bind oneself with "common political responsibility." (Coll. Works, Vol. VIII, p. 225.)
6) Parvus assessed Lenin's tactics as anarchistic, which, he claimed, is guided by the principle of "the worse, the better," while he himself wrote that if the Duma had legislative rights, it would be worse. (Ibid., p. 228.)
7) “For us, revolutionary Social Democrats, the uprising is not an absolute, but a concrete slogan... we do not forget that Marx in 1848 was for the uprising, and in 1850 he condemned the ravings and Phrases about the uprising.” (Ibid., p. 223.)