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Ch.
VI. Oblivion and Vulgarization of Marxism.
Ch.
VII. The Experience of 1905 and 1917.
Ch.
VIII. Conclusion
SUMMARIES AND PLANS OF INDIVIDUAL CHAPTERS
I.
PLAN OF THE PREFACE.
To the Preface: a) [Occasion (???): disputes! about the demarcation]
of Marxism and anarchism. — b) Theoretical question of prim-
ary] importance, especially in connection with imperialism. —
c; Opportunism and the relationship to the st[a_te. — d) "Era"
of social] revolution. — e) 1917.
II.
TO CHAPTER III.
a.
SUMMARY OF QUOTATIONS FROM MARX'S "CIVIL WAR" 8.
I. Destruction of the standing army. (p. 28 No. 1).
Officials: removable and from the workers: (p. 28 No. 2).
Police deprived of political functions and remov-
[able]. (p. 28 No. 4).
The same for other officials. (p. 28 No. 5).
For wages, p. 28 No. 6)...
Loss of their privilege [p. 28 No. 7)...
Dissolution of churches... (p. 28 No. 8)...
Judges, (p. 28 No. 9).
P. 30 No. 17.
II. The Commune is not a parliamentary, but a working, law-
making and executing institution (p. 28 No. 3).
NB: not parliament[ary, but people's representatives]: p. 29 No. 13.
ж The "b" draft is written in blue pencil; the entire content of the brochure is written over it in ink. Ed.

III. The Commune = the organization of all of France: p. 29 No. 10.
Central authority: p. 29 No. 11.
"Unity of the nation": p. 29 No. 12.
= The Commune is not = medieval, but to forge: p. 29 No. 14:
down with the parasite state: p. 29—30 No.
15.
Reshe p. 30 No. 16.
IV. V = Finally an open political
Form;
p. 30 No. 18.
V. Conditions of everything: p. 30 No. 19
and p. 31 b.
FIRST SUMMARY OF CHAPTER III.
1. An attempt to "smash" the state machine!
2. What to replace it with? Destruction of the standing army and
bureaucracy.
3. Not parliamentary, but working
4. How to organize the unity of the nation
5. Down with the parasite — state
6. Finally open
7. Conditions.
v.
SECOND SUMMARY OF CHAPTER III *.
Mhva:
1. What is the heroism of the Communards' attempt? p. 18.
2. What to replace the smashed state machine with?
p. 21.
3. Not parliamentary, but working institutions.
Destruction of parliamentarism, p. 24.
4. ! How to organize!. Organization
of the unity of the nation.
p. [25] 29.
5. [Down with] Destruction of the parasite"— the state,
[p. 29]
p. 32.
6. "Finally an open" political
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II and m l 1114NA 11Ы.
Elwa:
Chapter
III. 1/. In what way is the Communist
Manifesto outdated?
2. Analysis of the significance of the Commune. Marx.
III.
TO CHAPTER IV.
a.
PLAN OF CHAPTER IV.
Chapter IV.
1. Engels 1872
2. Engels 1873 and Marx
3. Engels 1875.
Dictatorship of the proletariat. Difference from anarchism. The Com-
mune was not a state in the proper sense.
4. Engels 1891.
Chapter
IV. § 4.
Engels 1891. Critique of the program
§ 4. Critique of the draft of the Erfurt program.
5. Engels 1891, preface!.
4 6. Engels 1894: against democracy.
b.
koienkkg quotations and;1 *housing non rog,a® ;>ng1:ll<:\.
Engels 1872
1) expro[priation of houses and apartments
2) "to help immediately."
3) rent will remain.
4) dictatorship of the proletariat.
5) "abolition of the state"...
IV.
PLANS FOR CHAPTERS V AND
UNWRITTEN.
a.
1. New "popular creativity" in the Russian revolution:
Soviets.

Kliva:
OR E
2. Lessons of 1905.
3. Eve of the revolution of 1917. Theses of 1915.
4. Experience of the revolution! of 1917. Soviets and their role.
III—IV. Beginning and prospects.
5. Prostitution of the Soviets by Mensheviks and Social
Revolutionaries]. Decline of the Soviets].
V— VIII. Decline.
6. Kornilovshchina. IX. Betrayal of the leaders of the 1st convocation.
b.
Chapter VIJ.
Experience of the Russian revolution of 1905 and
1917. p. 851. New
"popular creat[ivity" in the revolution.
Quid est? (Plekhanov 1906)
2. Lessons of 1905. (Resolution of the Mensheviks and Bol-
sheviks] 1906).
3. Eve of the revolution of 1917: theses of X. 1915.
4. Experience of 1917. Massive upsurge!, Soviets. (Their scope
and their weakness: petty-bourgeois dependence).
5. Prostitution
of the Soviets by SRs and Mensheviks:
militia, arming of the people.
military department. "Departments."
Economic department.
surveying 3—5. VIJ.
"independence" of the authorities from party organizations.
6. Kornilovshchina.
Decomposition of the Mensheviks and SRs.
Forgery 14— 19. IX.
7. "Messianism." Who will start? [or is this in the "Conclusion"?]
CONTENTS OF THE BROCHURE.
The title should be: "The State and Revolution."
Subtitle: The Marxist Doctrine of the State and the Tasks of the Pro-
letariat in the Revolution.
Original:
Preface: Ks. 1; Chapter 1. — (p. 2)
Or like this:
§ 1. State - a prod- (p. 2) Chapter 1. [The State uct of the irreconcilability
in the pre-class and in the class

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class contradict- ions...
p. 2.
§ 2. [The State] Special detachments of "armed people" and [tangible] appen-
dages], prisons and etc. p. 5 [finern!
[social] force armed] people.]
§ 3. State
[and the stock exchange] — an instrument of exploitation
of the oppressed class—p. .5.
§ 4. "Withering away" of the state and viol- ent revolu-
tion. p. 8 —11.
Chapter^ II. The State and Re- volution. The Experience of 1848 — g.
g.
Page
/—
4 8.
1. Eve of the revolution, p. / /
2. Results of the revolution, p. 44
"The State is organiWo in english in the dominant class [the proletariat."
It is necessary to smash the state machine of the bourgeoisie.
Chapter III. The State and Re- volution. The Experience of Paris-
ian; Commune. Ana- lysis of Marx, from p. 18— 3 i.
soci[ety. Class society st[ and state.
[One of the sources of opportu-!
nistic[al distortion
[of Mar-
\xism: "withering away." This = I
: "sociology."] i
Glava] II.
[Concrete historical development of the teachings of Marx
and Engels about state.
1. Experience of 1848
185*2 g.g.
Concrete " politics "
Tasks of the revolution
Ch. 111. Continuation]
I. The Experience of Pariso]
Kommuny.

1. What is the heroism of the at-
tempt of the Communards? — p. 18.
2. How to
replace the smashed state machine?— p. 21.
3. Destruction of parlia-
mentarism:
g. 2 4.
4- Orjrauii]zj a]pii of the unity of the nation:
p. 29.
5. Destruction of the para-
site — the state—p. [29.
32—34.
v.
Chapter IV. Irodolzhenie.
Additional iayasneniya E[ngels...
p; S i — Si.
1. "Housing question"...
p. &4.
2. Polemika with an[a|r-
xists. . .
p. 5 b.
3. Letter
to
B[ebel:
p. 39.
39)
Tl
4.
Critique of the iroekta
Erfurtskoi program- my: p. 40—4 v.
5. Preface of 1891 to
Marx's "Civil War": p. 46-^50.
G. Engels on the "overcoming"
of democracy:
p. 50
52.
#a
V.
Economic bases of the withering away of the st[a*1- te.
Pp. 5 2 -7 0.
mozhet byt
II. a. Markp
I 18 7 1 ' u nd j
1873. h 1872: Marx] und
Engels]}.
? II. E- Engels 1872, 1873, 1875.
Chapter IV. [The State and Re- v[o.no]ty III.
Results, summed up by E[i«re.il]com in the 90s r.r.J
Add[itional laysn[eniya.
Chapter V. Economic Bases of the Withering Away (Destruction)
of the State.

1. Formulation
of the question by Marx:
p. 5 3.
2. Tr[e|re|khod from capi-
talism to klom[m[v- niz]mu:
^ p. 3 5.
3. [Lower First Phase
kom[m\unisticheskogo] soci[ety:
p. 59.
I. Higher Phase of Commu-
nistic Object! Generally hlove:
p. (b>—70.
Chapter
LC. Debasement xmar- xism by opportunists:
7 0
S 4.
1. Polemics 11lex anojua
with auiarjx nicrja Mn:
' U V . 70—71.
2. Polemics Kautsko!go
with ona|_ortuni]st' a mi:
p. 7 1 - 70.
3. Polemics K[a^tsko]go with
Pannecook: p. 70 —8 4 .
Chapter
YII.
Experience of the Russian rev! olyu]tsii
1905 and
1917 g.g.
p. S 5 —
1 A phrase from N. Bukharin's article "Der imperialistische Raubstaat"
("The Imperialist Robber State") in the "Jugend-Internationale"
signed Nota Bene (December 1916).
2 K. Marx's article "Kritische Randglossen zu dein Artikel: Der
Konig von Preussen und die Sozialreform", "Aus dern literarischen Nachlass
von Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels und Ferdinand Lassale", IT Band, Stutt-
uart 1913, SS. 41—60 ("Critical Notes on the Article: The King of Prussia
and Social Reform," "From the Literary Legacy of Karl Marx,
Friedrich Engels and Ferdinand Lassalle," Volume II, Stuttgart, 1913.
p.
41—60); see Russian translation in Volume III of the Works of K.
Marx and F. Engels,
p. 1—20. The passage cited by Lenin is on p.
11.
a Fr. Engels, "Über das Autoritätsprinzip". ("Dell’Autorita") (Fr. En-
gels: "On the Principle of Authority"). "Die Neue Zeit" No. 2, XXXII year
of publication, volume |, 1913—1914, pp. 37—39.

1 K. Marx: «Der politische Indifferentismus» («L’indifferenza in mate-
ria politica») (K. Marx: "Political Indifferentism"). "Die Neue
Zeit" Л5 *2, XXXII year of publication, vol. II, 1913-1914, pp. 40-44.
’ Here, as in all subsequent paragraphs of this plan, the pages of the notebook "Marxism on the State" are indicated (cf. Lenin Coll. XIV,
pp. 208-209).
in "Several Theses."
From the Editors.
"Social-Democrat" "Лг 47, October 13, 1915 (see Works, vol. XVIII, pp. 311-313).
7 Lenin has in mind his speech at the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets in
R.
and S. D., which took place June 10 (3) - July 6 (June 23), 1917 (see
Works, vol. XX, pp. 479-488).
8 In the notebook "Marxism on the State," quotes from "The Civil
War" are divided into points and numbered (see Lenin Coll. XIV, pp. 298-
306. On the right side of the text, Lenin indicates these quote numbers here.
in The second abstract of Chapter III was seemingly written by Lenin already in
the very process of writing the pamphlet: the numbers on the right side of the text indicate
the pages of the pamphlet's manuscript.

1917
PRE-OCTOBER PERIOD
MATERIALS FOR DICTATION II I

MATERIALS FOR A SPEECH AT A MEETING
OF THE BOLSHEVIKS AT KSHESINSKAYA'S PALACE
ON THE EVENING OF APRIL 17 (4), 1917 (I.
III2;
11.1411 4 4M»i;IIII IIII )l.
1 Travel through Germany.
2
Civil and ona ;na
•
V
Separate
. and p
o) Meeting] in Stockholm].
o.
18736 kO H C .llГ.k'I' O T U K T IIO ii 1Ч ЧН.
Seized the moment and worked out a plaTform.
"Revolutionary theatricality."
D e l </.j "New" situation.
" /* e volutionary defencism."
Minority: propaganda, preparation.
j "it may be necessary to be in the minority" |
Transition — to the 2nd revolution
— to the power of the proletariat
— to socialism.
Renewal of the International.
Zimmerwald and Kienthal.
One word is illegible; it looks like: "overthrowing." Ed.

and
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DRAFT THESES ON POLITICAL TASKS.
[First days after arrival in Russia.] (1
Economic collapse threatens. Therefore, removing the bour-
geoisie] is a mistake.
(This is a bourgeois conclusion. The closer the collapse, the more urgent
the removal of the bourgeoisie).
(2) The proletariat is unorganized, weak, unconscious.
True. Therefore, the whole task is to fight against the dark petty bourgeois
leaders of the so-called s. d. (Chkheidze, Tsere teli], Steklov), who lull the masses, instilling in them confidence
in the bourgeoisie.
Not unification with these petty bourgeois (Chkheidze.
Steklov, Tsereteli), but the development of this socialdemocratic party,
destroying the revolution of the proletariat).
(3) Revolution is bourgeois at this stage. Therefore, there is no need for a "socialist] experiment".
(This reasoning is thoroughly bourgeois. No one is talking about a "socialist]
experiment". The concrete, Marxist position now requires not only taking into account class
es, but institutions.
Messrs. stranglers of the revolution with sweet Phrase (Cheidze, Ts[ere—
teli], Steklov) are dragging the revolution back from the Soviets of Wo[rkers'] Deputies
to the "sole power" of the bourgeoisie, to the usual bourgeois
parliamentary republic.
We must skillfully, carefully, by clarifying minds, lead
the proletariat and the poorest peasantry forward, from "dual power" to the full power of the Soviets of Wo[rkers'] Deputies], and this
is the Commune in the sense of Marx, in the sense of the experience of 1871.
The question is not how quickly to go, but where to go.
The question is not whether the workers are prepared, but h o w
and what to prepare them for.
Since the manifestos and appeals of the Soviet of Wo[rkers'] Depu-
ties] on war and so on are empty and false petty bourgeois
[geois] chatter, only lulling the people, then our task most of all, as I said, is to clarify minds, to rid the masses from the bour
geois influence of Chkheidze, Steklov, Tsere teli] and Co.