—to consolidate the conquest of the revolution generally, and to ensure the most peaceful and systematic transition to socialism,—must constitute one of the chief tasks of the proletarian party alongside the struggle against those representatives of the bankrupt II International (1889-1914) who have distorted Marxism and betrayed socialism on the question of the dictatorship of the proletariat.

Monopolistic capitalism, which during the war develops with particular rapidity in a number of advanced countries into state-monopolistic capitalism, signifies a gigantic socialization of production and, consequently, complete objective preparation of the conditions for the creation of a socialist society*.

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In the minimum program, strike out everything at the beginning (from the words: "On the path" through § 1) and replace it with the following:

At the moment Russia is experiencing, when the Provisional Government, belonging to the class of landowners and capitalists and enjoying the confidence—necessarily unstable—of the broad masses of the petty-bourgeois population, has undertaken to convene a Constituent Assembly,—before the party of the proletariat there arises the immediate task of struggling for a state structure that best ensures both economic development and the rights of the people generally, and above all the possibility of the most painless transition to socialism.

The Party struggles and helps the popular masses immediately to struggle for a democratic republic, beginning the realization of freedoms through the independent self-organization of the masses from below and thereby achieving not a bourgeois-parliamentary republic, in which are specially secured both the domination of capitalists and the possibility of applying violence against the masses through the

* Text: "Monopolistic capitalism... socialist society" is struck out in the manuscript. —Ed.

preservation of the old organs of oppression of the masses: police, standing army, bureaucracy,—but rather a more democratic workers' and peasants' republic, in which it is impossible, impermissible to preserve these organs of oppression, and in which state power belongs directly to the armed—to a man—workers and peasants themselves.

§ 1. All supreme power in the state must belong to representatives of the people, elected and subject to recall at any time by the people and constituting one people's assembly, one chamber.

§ 2—add:

proportional representation in all elections; the right of recall of all without exception delegates and elected persons at any time by decision of the majority of their electors.

§ 3—add:

absence of all oversight or control from above over the decisions and actions of regional and local self-government bodies.

§ 9—change as follows:

the right of free secession and of formation of its own state for all nations composing the state. The Republic of the Russian people should attract other peoples or nationalities to itself not by force, but exclusively by voluntary agreement on the creation of a common state. The unity and fraternal alliance of workers of all countries is incompatible with either direct or indirect violence against other nationalities.

§ 11—change as follows:

the election by the people of judges and all officials, both in the civil service and in the army; the right of recall of all of them at any time by decision of the majority of their electors; payment to all state officials not exceeding the wages of a skilled worker, 300-500 rubles, depending on the number of family members and their earnings; absolute prohibition for officials to combine salary with income from other sources.