Written: Written in the autumn of 1904
Published:
First published in 1930 in Lenin Miscellany XV.
Printed from the original.
Source:
Lenin
Collected Works,
Progress Publishers,
1977,
Moscow,
Volume 41,
pages 132.2-133.1.
Translated: Yuri Sdobnikov
Transcription\Markup:
R. Cymbala
Copyleft:
V. I. Lenin Internet Archive (www.marxists.org)
© 2004
Permission is granted to copy and/or distribute this document under the
terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.
| α) | Contemporary system. | |
| β) | Socialist aims and the class struggle. | |
| γ) |
Struggle against the autocracy.
[[ for 2-3 hours ]] [BOX:] Divide α-γ into three talks |
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[SQUIGLY:]
Plan for first talk
[SQUIGLY:] on the Social-Democratic programme |
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| α {{ | 1. | The struggle of the workers against their masters to improve their condition is world-wide. Strikes—socialism. What does this mean? |
| 2. | Contemporary society is arranged as follows: it is divided into working people and exploiters. Two classes. Property-owners and proletarians. Who maintains whom? | |
| 3. | Workers’ plight: low wages. Malnutrition. Unemployment. Female labour. Child labour. “Degeneration of the nation.” Prostitution. Social and political oppression. | |
| β {{ | 4. | In large-scale production, workers unite to fight against their masters. Under capitalism, the whole of society is more tightly knit, making possible a transition to socialist production. Example of the masters being quite useless in big factories and estates. |
| 5. | Socialist revolution=land and factories handed over to the workers. Socialist production, short working hours, etc. | |
| 6. | Demands on modern society to facilitate the workers’ struggle and safeguard them against degeneration: labour reforms, 8-hour working day, weekly payment of wages, living quarters, medical aid, schools, etc. | |
| γ {{ | 7. | Political demands. What is an autocracy? Struggle for political freedom. (Constitution—republic, freedom of speech, assembly, etc., etc.) |
| 8. | Revolutionary parties and their role in the working-class struggle. Narodnaya Volya and S o c i a l- D e m o c r a c y. |
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