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CORRECTIONS IN THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE ARTICLE "REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE AND LIBERAL BARGAINING" *.
3 "PROLETARY", NO. 9, JUNE 9 (MAY 27), 1905.
^Organizing liberals .J
Revolutionary struggle or liberal bargaining 4.

...The bourgeoisie possesses immeasurably greater freedom of legal expression than the proletariat, an immeasurably greater number of intellectual forces and financial resources, incomparably greater conveniences for party organization, — and yet before us is still a "party" without an official name, without a common, clear and precise program, without party tactics, without party organization, a "party" consisting, according to the assessment of the competent Mr. P.S., of the "zemstvo Fraction" and the "Union of Liberation", i.e., of an unorganized conglomerate of INDIVIDUALS PLUS an organization. [— "party" without party tactics]
...We [will now move on] will return to this incomparable, extremely characteristic concept for the entire essence of bourgeois liberalism;
[but first let us finish the analysis of the program of our bourgeoisie] now let us move on to the analysis of the foundations of the liberal program.
But the point is that the bourgeois gentlemen cannot now call themselves by their real name, [they cannot, because] This is as impossible as going out into the street naked... No, people of bourgeois politics will not stop at any indecency, once their interests require this [indecency]...
* Works, VII, 339 — 345. Ed.

REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE AND LIBERAL BARGAINING
...The more the ideologue of the petty bourgeoisie reflects its instability, its inability to a sustained and steadfast struggle for a democratic revolution and for socialism, the more fervently he orates about the "Socialist-Revolutionary" party, [it was rightly said about this party] about which it was rightly said that its socialism is not at all revolutionary, and its revolutionary spirit is not at all connected with socialism...
So, let [it] power pass into the hands of the people, long live the autocracy of the people in place of the autocracy of the Tsar. Isn't that right, gentlemen? Isn't that what democratism demands?
Such is the calculation of the real politicians of liberalism. A [correct] not stupid calculation...
...But [are they much further] are not the liberationists themselves essentially standing on the position of the Shipovites [going]? After all, they [themselves too] also do not want to give the people all the power, after all, they themselves stand for an agreement between the power of the Tsar and the opinion of the people!
...The first slogan ensures [maximum probability of integrity] the greater possibility of preserving the monarchy, despite the revolutionary onslaught of the people. The second puts forward a direct path to the republic. The first leaves power to the Tsar, [and only wants to limit it] limiting it with the opinion of the people. The second is the only slogan that consistently and unconditionally leads to the autocracy of the people in the full sense of the word.
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* The first paragraph of the article was crossed out by Lenin, but was nevertheless included in the text of Volume VII of the Works. We do not reproduce it.
* On the reverse side of the last page of the manuscript, Lenin calculated the letters of the article: "'25 — 4 = '21 χ 8 = 1 6 ,β. About 16 thousand letters." The last numbering of the manuscript pages is 25. 4 pages are crossed out, of which only the first two have been preserved, and the 21st and 22nd are not available in the PMEI archive, so 21 pages remained to be typeset. Lenin considers 800 letters on a page as a round number, and therefore considers, rounding off, the size of the article to be 16 thousand letters.