âON SOCIAL RELATIONS IN RUSSIAâ
âOn Social Relations in Russiaâ (1875).
...âThe big bourgeoisie of Petersburg, Moscow, Odessa: which has developed with unheard-of rapidity during the last decade, chiefly due to the railways ... the entire Russian large-scale industry, which exists only thanks to ... protective tariffs,âhave all these important and rapidly growing elements of the population no interest in the existence of the Russian state?â ... (p. 52) (against Tkachov).
A postscript (1894)âto the article âOn Social Relations in Russiaââends with this sentence:
âIt [the revolution in Russia] will not only rescue the great mass of the nation, the peasants, from the isolation of their villages, which constitute their âmirâ, their world, and lead them on to the big stage, where they will get to know the outside world and thereby themselves, their own position, and the means of salvation from their present state of want, but it will also give a new impetus and new, better conditions of struggle to the workersâ movement of the West, and hasten the victory of the modern industrial proletariat, without which present-day Russia cannot find her way, whether through the village commune or through capitalism, to a socialist transformation of societyâ (p. 72).
Notes
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