V. I. Lenin

Source: ru:PSS/v26
Translated: machine translation (DeepSeek) from the Russian; AI-translated.

The article on Karl Marx, now being issued as a separate reprint, was written by me in 1913 (as far as I remember) for the Granat Encyclopaedia. At the end of the article there was appended a fairly detailed list of literature on Marx, mainly foreign. This has been omitted in the present edition. Furthermore, the editors of the Encyclopaedia, for reasons of censorship, deleted from my article the concluding section dealing with Marx’s revolutionary tactics. Unfortunately, I am unable to reproduce this concluding section here, because the draft has remained somewhere among my papers in Cracow or in Switzerland. I only remember that in this concluding section I quoted, among other things, the passage from Marx’s letter to Engels of April 16, 1856, where Marx wrote: “The whole thing in Germany will depend on the possibility of backing the proletarian revolution by some second edition of the Peasant War. Then the affair will be splendid.”{41} This is what our Mensheviks, who have now sunk to the point of complete betrayal of socialism and of going over to the side of the bourgeoisie, have failed to understand since 1905.

Moscow, May 14, 1918.