Vladimir Lenin's "Tactics of Social-Democracy"

Two tactics of social democracy in the democratic revolution.

5 ladimir Ilyich Lenin.

Preface.

In a revolutionary period, it is very difficult to keep

abreast of events which provide an astonishing amount of new

material for an evaluation of the tactical slogans of revolutionary

parties.

The present pamphlet was written before the Odessa events.

We have already pointed out in the proletariat #9 revolution

teaches.

That these events have forced even those Social Democrats who

created the uprising as a process theory.

And who rejected propaganda for a provisional revolutionary government actually

to pass over or begin to pass over to the side of their opponents?

Revolution undoubtedly teaches with a rapidity and thoroughness which appear

incredible in peaceful periods of political development.

And what is particularly important, it teaches not only the

leaders, but the masses as well.

There is not the slightest doubt that the revolution will

teach social democratism to the masses of the workers in

Russia.

The revolution will confirm the program and tactics of social

democracy in actual practice.

By demonstrating the true nature of the various classes of

society.

By demonstrating the bourgeois character of our democracy and the

real aspirations of the peasantry, who, while being revolutionary in

the bourgeois democratic sense, harbor not the idea of socialization,

but of a new class struggle between the peasant bourgeoisie

and the rural proletariat.

The old illusions of the old narodi ISM, which are

so clearly visible, for instance, in the draft program of

the Socialist Revolutionary Party on the question of the development

of capitalism in Russia.

The question of the democratic character of our society and

the question of the significance of a complete victory of

a peasant uprising.

All these illusions will be mercilessly and completely blown to

the winds by the revolution.