| α) Lack of principle |
About the Socialist-Revolutionaries (a party without a
programme).
Unprincipledness in matters of theory:
Narodnik prejudices + West-European opportunist bourgeois “criticism.”
Absence of a credo, blurred political consciousness. Playing at
hide-and-seek....
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| β) Petty-bourgeois ideology |
Petty-bourgeois ideology: corrupts the class-consciousness of the proletariat,
makes it unfit for an independent stand towards bourgeois democracy (because the
Socialist-Revolutionaries are striving to fuse and confuse social and bourgeois
democracy, while being in essence a branch of the latter).
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| γ) Phrases and bluff |
Phrase-mongering in theory and in tactics: an unserious attitude towards revolu
tionary work, exaggeration, bluff, “fiction” ...
(dishing out trivialities in “popular” literature) (war against
“polemics,” absence of principles).
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| δ) Terrorism |
A tactical mistake, a very flagrant one:
terrorism, advocacy of it, weakening of contact with the mass movement.
ΣΣ [Summa
summarum—sum-total.—Ed.]:
from all the bourgeois revolutions in Europe the working class
emerged
disap
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| ε Dissemination of illusions + reactionary spirit
of the Narodnik part of the programme + ideological, political and
practical harm |
pointed, because it entered them with
bourgeois-democratic illusions. The Socialist-Revolutionaries are
doing their utmost to “repeat” this history; it is our
duty to wage a determined struggle against it, so that the Russian
proletariat should derive from the forthcoming revolution not
disappointment, but fresh faith in its strength, greater courage
for the still more tremendous struggle before it, and the
beginnings of a strong, purely proletarian organisation.
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