Arguments of ideological defenders of capitalism, Mensheviks and Socialist-Revolutionaries:

"Dictatorship of one party"?

= vanguard of the proletariat. = Dictatorship of the proletariat.

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(1) 1903–1904 (2) 1905–1907 (3) 1908–1911 (4) 1912–1914 (5) 1914–1917 (6) 1917 II.—X.

Unified socialist (or democratic) front?

= concessions to the bourgeoisie.

(CC of the Mensheviks. 26. VII. 1919){142}.

"The soul of socialism = freedom."

"Equality of labor democracy."

§ 23 of the Soviet Constitution.

Universal suffrage habit of the rich = of the poor.

{ The force of wealth, the force of habit, the force of the separate interests of small proprietors + freedom of agitation + equality of voting! }

Written in July, no earlier than 26, 1919.

First published in 1933 in Lenin Miscellany XXIV

Printed from the manuscript