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Plekhanov and the New "Iskra"

I. Instead of an Introduction. A Small Supplement to the Analysis of the Intelligent-Bourgeois Übermensch 764.

1. Began polemical pamphlet with solidarity. "The Übermensch." So!!*

2. Lack of character. Became clever. Defector — boastful.

Bretter, "The Darling" 765. Factions from defectors. To dissemble...

II. The Question of the Provisional Revolutionary Government.

(.) Unnecessary carping.

1. Philosophy: "carefree." Contra Orthodox 766.

2. — "crudeness" and hypocrisy.

3. Where was Engels's letter published?

4. Martynov and "What Is to Be Done?" Cf. II Congress 767.

5. Lenin — "alone." Against the émigrés
shabby gossip.

6. Dialectician? "I am not a Marxist" 768.

.) References to Marx and Engels.

(Marx) "Virtuoso of philistinism" 769.

Does not admit the thought or does not pose the question.

"The Situation" 770 (Charlatanry 771).

(Engels) Letter to Turati 1848 and 1894.

Jaurèsism (cf. no. 14 "Vpered").

Substitution of words and distinction of positions. Dialectic or distortion?

Mockery of dialectic.

Objective task — democratic or socialist revolution?

* — Thus!! Ed.

(Engels) Bakuninists.

General question: is a provisional government admissible?

Participation at all?

"In the minority" distorts my thought "Correlation of forces" "Where were we against the provisional government?" 772 (Ha-ha.)

Defilement from above and below 773

Connection with uprising (cf. 1873 and 1848)

principle or expediency? 774

Got confused:

Unthinkable no. 2 "Diary." Contra "Zarya" no. 1.

Impermissible ibid.* "Iskra" no. 74-75.

The contemporary situation in Russia.

Uprising? Its organ?

"Invented dictatorship" 775. Is that all? — the crux of the matter.

Odessa "seizure" 776. Taxes? One city?

Revolutionary communes?

"The Leader has perished" ("Pedants").

Petty bourgeoisie: reactionary and revolutionary.

Petty bourgeoisie and peasantry.

Confusion of democratic and socialist revolution.

K. Kautsky on Millerand.

K. Kautsky on the "victory" of the Russian revolution, on the rule of the proletariat.

Resolutions of congresses and the polemics of the Übermensch.

..** = got confused.

* — ibidem — ibid. Ed.

** — Summa summarum — the general sum. Ed.