V. I. Lenin

Plan for a Lecture “Manifesto of the Liberal Labour Party” {1}

1. Why does N. Rozhkov’s article in No. 9–10 of Nasha Zarya deserve such a name and the most thorough analysis? It affords
an opportunity of examining the question of the two lines in the labour
movement and the “two parties” outside any “conflict” material, outside any “squabble”.

2. The type of “Social-Democrat of freedom days”. Bourgeois democrats
in Marxist garb. Rozhkov as a specimen; his article is a wholesale
substitution of liberalism for Marxism.

3. The role of the serf-owners in modern Russia from the standpoint of
the liberals (Rozhkov) and the Marxists. The “December (1908)
resolutions” of the R.S.D.L.P.

4. The attitude of democrats to the (Stolypin) solution of the agrarian
problem “through a compromise between various groups of the bourgeoisie”.

5. Is Russia to have a “triumph of highly moderate bourgeois
progressism”?

6. A comparison of modern Russia with her Third Duma and France of the
1860s with her Legislative Corps, and Prussia of 1880s.

7. Have the “old slogans” become a “dead letter”?

8. Why is the Society for the Protection of the Interests of the
Working Class, which is being set up by Rozhkov, a society for the
liberal protection of working-class interests in their liberal interpretation?

9. Ratio: Y. Larin is to the labour congress as N. Rozhkov is to the
legal liquidationist party.