V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v35;es:MT
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

1. “Now there is no need to fear a man with a gun.”

1 bis: Dwellings of the poor and their food supply.

1 ter. Weak points of the Soviet power that has not yet fully developed.

2. “Propaganda by deed.”

3. Agitator or prosecutor?

4. Practicalism and “positive work.”

5. Organisational work and organisers from among the people.

5 bis: cf. *Pravda* before April 4 on organisational miracles.[20]

6. Our attitude towards the anarchists.

6 bis: Anarchists through misunderstanding, through impatience, through mood, through instinct.

7. Dissatisfied workers.

8. Red tape and slovenliness of the intelligentsia.

9. Has the resistance of the capitalists been broken? (The historical phrase of the good-natured Peshekhonov.[81])

9 bis: Civil war, its significance, its hardships (deserters), its inevitability in 1917–1918.

10. National chauvinism in oppressor and oppressed nations.

10 bis: Parasitism of the petty bourgeoisie and the treachery of the Finnish Social-Democrats.

11. How to “win over” to the side of the Russian Socialist Republic of Soviets other nations in general, and the nations formerly oppressed by the Great Russians in particular?

12. Suppression of the exploiters.

13. How to organise competition?

14. Accounting and control as the essence of socialism.

14 bis: Groups of flying controllers.

14 ter: Swindlers in revolutions.

15. To manage enterprises or to discuss socialism?

16. Workers’ discipline and the habits of the down-and-outs.

16 a. The death penalty and shooting of thieves by Red Guards.

17. What is the kinship between the down-and-outs and the intelligentsia?

17 bis. “Right-wing Bolshevism”; is there a place for it in our Party?

18. The Constituent Assembly and the socialist republic of Soviets.

The waves of revolution do not roll in smoothly, evenly, or uniformly.

18 bis: Formal democracy of the bourgeoisie and (versus[21]) the apparatus for drawing the people into the war against the bourgeoisie by the proletariat.

18 ter: Democracy and (versus) the dictatorship of the proletariat.

19. Quotation from Plekhanov’s speech of 1903.[82] In what does their complete ideological bankruptcy consist? (the petty bourgeois, the socialist-opportunists, the Mensheviks, the Right and Chernov Socialist-Revolutionaries, the *Novaya Zhizn* group and Co.)

20. “Separate peace,” its danger and its possible significance. Is a separate peace an “agreement” (“compromise”) with the imperialists?

20 bis. Separate peace and our duty to the international proletariat. “Die Deutschen brauchen eine Niederlage.”[83]

21. Stages or phases in the revolution. Correlation of class forces and allies. Peace and land—in Russia.

22. Provocation by the imperialists: give us a convenient pretext to strangle you, republic of Soviets, the sooner the better!

22 bis: *Pravda* of December 24: “Their Plan.” Lloyd George’s historic words. “At Russia’s expense.”[84]

23. The transition of revolutionary internationalists to “defencism.”

24. International policy of the socialist republic of Soviets.

25. Revolutionary phrase and revolutionary duty in the question of revolutionary war.

26. How should a revolutionary war be “prepared”?

27. A revolutionary war waged by the proletariat holding power can only be a war for consolidated socialism.

28. First defeat the bourgeoisie in Russia, then wage war against the external, foreign, alien bourgeoisie.

29. Difficulties of revolution in the West-European “parasitic” countries.

31.[22] Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

To drive the locomotive forward and keep it on the rails.

32. Raise the very lowest strata to historical creative endeavour: Mit dem Umfang der geschichtlichen Aktion wird auch der Umfang der Masse zunehmen, deren Aktion sie ist. “The extension of the scope of historical action is accompanied by an increase in the number of the mass whose action it is.”[85]

** An acquisition for all time. Rare.

34. Finance and food supply.

The centre and the localities.

35. “Persecution” of speculators and saboteurs.

36. Money. Its role. Its absorption into the “treasury.”

37. Nationalisation of industry and the “duty” of the workers in work.

38. State monopoly of foreign trade.

39. The fisc (“treasury”) and the transformation of this concept in the socialist revolution.

40. Banks—a form of bookkeeping. (Pyatakov’s article in *Pravda*.[86])

41. “Gaining time” = a separate peace (pending the European revolution).

42. The “defeats” of April 20 and July 3 versus the victory of October 25.

43. Comparison of this “defeat” with a separate peace.

44. Distribution of labour and distribution of products = ΣΣ.[23]

Economic questions:

National question:

Political questions:

Organisational questions:

International policy: