Date: 1905
Source: ru:PSS/v10

Compare “Iskra” No. 93, the feuilleton—our efforts are directed from below, not from above.

A separate article ought to be devoted to this topic. It should be shown that a revolutionary who, in a revolutionary era, confines himself to activity from below alone, who renounces pressure from above, thereby, ipso facto[113], renounces revolution.

Two types of bourgeois development—or of revolutionary breakthroughs out of the feudal ancien régime[114]—are conceivable:

1) Through concessions from above, through cuts, reductions, and subtractions;

2) Through transformation from below, through the positive introduction of a new order…