V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:LS/v26;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

Date: 1905
Source: Lenin Miscellany, Volume 26
Pages: 340-340

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All these instructions of Lenin’s were carried out. Obviously, A. Nasimovich revised his article after Lenin’s editorial review. The manuscript contains whole pages crossed out by Lenin. The remark in the manuscript is crossed out.
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CORRECTIONS IN V. VOROVSKY’S ARTICLE “THE BOURGEOISIE AND THE MONARCHY”.
IN “PROLETARY”, AUGUST 9 (JULY 27), 1905.

... But, of course, in a society based on the power of money,
[the interests] the domination of even the most numerous, but unorganised and in money terms least influential class*, [can retain power only thanks to a dictatorship] can be realised only in the form of Bonapartism___

... For this they need the fiction of defending the interests of the whole of society, and such a fiction is unthinkable under a republican form of government, where all class and group interests are laid bare; such a fiction can be created only by a power “by the grace of God”
[or “by the will of the people”] ... And if Louis
Bonaparte so easily made himself Emperor of the French, then [the lion’s share] the main cause of his success lay in the readiness of the upper
* The reference is to the peasantry. Ed.
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