*TO THE ARTICLE "PETTY-BOURGEOIS AND PROLETARIAN SOCIALISM,"
[October 1905]
The following notes by Lepin, in their first part, are excerpts from the article "Orthodox Marxists and the Peasant Question," published in No. 75 of "Revolutionary Russia" (the organ of the Socialist-Revolutionary Party), dated September 28 (45), 1905. The second part, entitled "Petty-Bourgeois and Proletarian Socialism," serves as a summary of the article of the same name, published in "Proletary" No. 24, dated November 7 (October 25), 1905. (Works, Vol. VIII, pp. 560-566.)
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EDITORIAL IN No. 75 (15 IX 05) OF REVOLUTIONARY RUSSIA: "ORTHODOX] MARXISTS AND THE PEASANT] QUESTION."

1) "Russian] Social Democrats in the most foundational way ignored the peasant question." "There was a time..." *)
Untrue. Program of Emancipation] of Labor]? - 1881
Social Democrat]? 2)
All-Russian] Ruin - 1888 etc.
Tasks - 1897.1897 3)
Iskra No. 5

1901 4)
Lenin Miscellany, V
Socialdemocrats "became alarmed," when the peasant "began to speak."
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lenin miscellany

2) "Remaining true to their doctrine, they should have by all means obstructed the demands of the peasantry, because the realization of these demands would inevitably lead to the consolidation of the now completely ruined small peasant farm and thereby would have significantly delayed the process of proletarianization of the peasant"... 5)

"Compromise" = cut-offs.
Resolution of the III congress = "decisive turn" towards the ideas of the Socialists-Revolutionaries.
NB
"In fact, isn't revolutionary confiscation... the closest prelude to that socialization of land which, in our conviction, can already be realized during the current phase of Russian social life." 3)

Mr. Lenin and his agrarian program page 2, column 1.
< p[ lowest? 6)
All landlord farms, both medium and low, are higher than peasant ones, yields are higher.
How then to replace the higher?

Mr. Lenin evades the question, referring to a democratic] republic etc. "The peasantry" will take the land, and no group will be able to wrest it from them.
I do not understand!
I do not understand!
I do not understand!
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Laboring peasantry, according to Mr. Lenin's classification, is a petty bourgeois element.
The establishment of pettybourgeois farms on the ruins of more or [less] developed capitalistic] farming. . . . 5)
He forgot his V.V. Russian] landlord farming and capitalism?!?
"Why was it necessary to support first the peasant in general against the landlord, and then (i.e., at the same time) to support the proletariat against the peasant in general, instead of immediately supporting the proletariat against the landlord, and what does Marxism have to do with it, only Allah knows." 5)