V. I.

Lenin

Original Postscript to the Article “The Development of Revolutionary Strikes and Street Demonstrations” [1]

We call on Social-Democrats to pay particular attention to
F.D.’s “Tactical Notes” in Luch . How rapidly the coating of
showy conciliationism and “unification” phrase-mongering in the spirit of
Trotsky has disappeared! How clearly the real trend of
Luch —barefaced liquidationism—has been revealed!

In a legal organ, F.D. is waging a regular war not only against
revolutionary mass strikes (to say nothing of an uprising) 1 but
also against all revolutionary agitation among the masses. In point of
fact, F.D. goes much further than V.A. ( Luch No. 56), betraying
his complete ideological kinship with the Bund’s “deletion” of the
revolution. That is what comes of the liquidators’ refusal to make a
straightforward, clear and formal “appraisal of the situation”: it is in
fact Larin’s appraisal that F.D. upholds by denying the objective
conditions which make it imperative for the workers to organise
for revolution , for drawing the masses in general and the
peasantry in particular into the revolutionary movement.

We shall come back to F.D.’s articles again.

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Notes:
[1]
The manuscript has no title. The title given here has been supplied by
the Institute of Marxism-Leninism under the C.C. of the C.P.S.U.