Plan of the article:
There is no fixed boundary between the bourgeois and the proletarian revolution...

5. Religion 4. Dynasty
Bourgeois ^ 1. Feudals 3. Family 2. Land – Workers’ Power
The “forces” of the working class and the peasantry—harnessing the apparatus of state power—the proletarian dictatorship.
Civil war (lessons learned, “education”) ^ Comintern...
“The element of war is danger.”
State capitalism will unite the petty bourgeoisie (which lacks nothing but unity) and overthrow the proletarian dictatorship. … “Will the army unite”?…
We are building the foundation (solely) of a socialist economy.
Written in 1921, prior to October 14
First published in 1959 in Lenin’s Collected Works, Volume XXXVI

Printed from manuscript

* See this volume, pp. 144–152. Ed.
** — “The element of war is danger.” Ed.