V. I. Lenin

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

Date: 1906
Source: Lenin Miscellany, Volume 26
Pages: 192-192

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AMENDMENTS TO THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE ARTICLE “THE DEMOCRATIC TASKS
OF THE REVOLUTIONARY PROLETARIAT”*.
X 4 “PROLETARY”, JUNE 17 (4), 1906.
[The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Democratic Revolution.]
The Democratic Tasks of the Revolutionary Proletariat.
...If we prove unable to oppose the armed force of the government with the force of the armed people, if the tsarist government is not utterly defeated and replaced by a provisional revolutionary government, then any [constituent] representative assembly, whatever titles of popular and constituent it may be given, will in fact prove to be an assembly of representatives of the big bourgeoisie for a deal with the tsar over a division of power between them.
[Tactical directives for the entire party of the conscious proletariat, the R.S.D.L.P., flowing from this conclusion, are given in the resolution of the 8th Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. on the provisional revolutionary government. On the contrary, the resolution adopted on the same question by the conference of the split-off section of the party (the so-called Mensheviks or Novo-Iskraists) reveals precisely a failure to understand this conclusion, a repetition of the old mistake of the Economists, who belittle the tasks of the revolutionary struggle or fritter it away on stages. In view of the enormous importance for the party of precise tactical directives on this question at the present moment, we shall examine in detail the difference between the two resolutions in the following article.]