Note: End of December 1912. Additions to letters published in "Lenin Collections," nos. 1 and 2

LENIN COLLECTION.

Here is the crux of the matter, and this is not understood.

The proletariat, as a particular class, alone continues to conduct its class struggle.

2. The State is merely an instrument of the proletariat in its class struggle. A special cudgel, rien de plus!

Old prejudices concerning the State (compare "The State and Revolution"). New forms of the State = the subject of section B; here only an approach to this.

3. The forms of class struggle of the proletariat, in its dictatorship, cannot be the former ones. Five new (principal) tasks and respectively new forms:

4. ((1)). The suppression of the resistance of the exploiters. Opportunists and "socialists" entirely forget about this as a task (and the content) of the EPOCH.

From this:

(aa) a particular (highest) ferocity of class struggle.

(ßß) new forms of resistance, corresponding to capitalism and its highest stage (conspiracies + sabotage + influence on the petty bourgeoisie, etc. etc.).

and in particular.

5. Civil war.

Revolution in general and civil war (1649, 1793) compare Karl Kautsky 1902 in "The Social Revolution."

The resistance of the exploiters begins before their overthrow and intensifies after from two sides. The struggle to the end or to "talk oneself out of it" (as the petty bourgeoisie, "socialists" do).

V. LENIN. ON THE DICTATORSHIP OF THE PROLETARIAT.

Civil war in the epoch of international ties of capitalism.

The transformation of imperialist war into civil war. (The ignorance and vile cowardice of the "socialists.")

Compare Marx 1870: teaches the proletariat to wield arms. The epoch 1871—1914 and the epoch of civil wars.

6. ((3)) "Neutralization" of the petty bourgeoisie, especially peasantry.

Communist Manifesto (reactionary and revolutionary "to the extent that").

Karl Kautsky in the "Agrarian Question." Neutralization is the same thought verballhornt.

"Neutralization" in practice [ suppression by force (Engels 1895).
] example:
^ persuasion, etc. etc. attraction + suppression, "to the extent that."

7. ((4)) "Utilization" of the bourgeoisie.

"Specialists." Not only the suppression of resistance, not only "neutralization," but the conscription for work, forced service to the proletariat.

Compare the Program of the RCP. "Military specialists."

Lenin Collection, III.

Civil war and the "destruction" of the party (Karl Kautsky). Terror and civil war.

a) RUSSIA, Hungary, Finland, Germany.

ß) Switzerland and America.

+ The inevitability of combining civil war with revolutionary wars (compare the Program of the RCP).

"The ruling class." Dominion excludes "freedom and equality."

"To lead," "to guide," "to draw along," the class content of these concepts.

The peasant and the worker. The peasant as a laborer and the peasant as an exploiter (speculator, proprietor). "To the extent that." Fluctuations in the course of struggle. Experience of struggle.

"One reactionary mass": Engels 1875, relation to the Commune.

8. ((5)). The education of new discipline.

(a) The dictatorship of the proletariat and trade unions.

(ß) Communist Saturdays.

(γ) Purification of the party and its role.

(δ) Bonuses and piece-rate wages.

II. (B) The dictatorship of the proletariat as the destruction of bourgeois and the creation of proletarian democracy.

9. Dictatorship and democracy as "general" ("pure" according to Karl Kautsky) concepts.

Dictatorship as the negation of democracy. For whom?

Abstract (petty-bourgeois) democratic point of view and Marxism (class struggle). Definition. Violence (Engels).

10. "Freedom." = That of commodity-owners.

Real freedom for wage-laborers — for peasants.

Freedom for the exploiters.

Freedom for whom?

" from whom? from what?

" in what?

11. "Equality." Engels in Anti-Dühring (a prejudice if beyond the abolition of classes).

Equality of the exploited with the exploiter.

Equality of the hungry with the satiated.

" of the worker with the peasant.

Equality of whom with whom? in what?

The State and "freedom" compare Engels 1875).

Equality of commodity-owners.