(α) Recognition of the revolution of 25 October as a socialist revolution.

(β) Rejection of all limitations of this proposition in the spirit of a return to the bourgeois-democratic revolution (gradualness of transition; “stage” of bloc with the petty bourgeoisie, etc.).

(γ) Dictatorship of the proletariat, its specific features as distinct from “general”, formal (bourgeois) democratism, its tactics.

(δ) Soviet power and the power of the Bolsheviks.

(ε) Agreement with the petty bourgeoisie not in the sense of a bloc for the bourgeois-democratic revolution, not in the sense of limiting the tasks of the socialist revolution, but exclusively in the sense of forms of transition to socialism for individual strata of the petty bourgeoisie.

(ι) Bourgeois freedoms versus suppression of the exploiters.

(κ) Saboteurs and capitalists; capitalists and the “public opinion” of the bourgeoisie.

(ξ) The Constituent Assembly and its subordination to Soviet power, to the interests and conditions of the civil war.

(η) Top-level organizations (Vikzhel, the peasant Central Executive Committee, etc.) and the struggle against them.

(θ) Struggle against reformism in its contemporary setting:

(1) tying the hands of the proletariat by fellow-travellers from the petty bourgeoisie

(2) restricting the scope of the revolutionary struggle of the “lower strata”

(3) renunciation of terror.

Written in November 1917.

First published in 1957 in the journal “Voprosy Istorii KPSS” No. 1

Printed from the manuscript.