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Struve’s opinionĪbout the trend to which he himself adheres, I am surprised that he paid If, however, he was so anxious to know Mr.
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Therefore, had no right to take as applying to himself what was meant for Socialists, against people who had nothing in common with the Plekhanov, undoubtedly, polemised against Narodniks, and we can see whom he classes as Narodniks from theįact that he refers to Plekhanov’s Our Differences as a polemicĪgainst the Narodniks. Speaks of the “utopianism of the national socialism” of the Struve is not guilty of such an awful injustice at all. Mr. Pobedonostsev, too, will have to be classed as a socialist! Working people can very well exist and is engendered within thisĬommunity? That is stretching the word “socialism” to mean Is there socialistic in that, when everyone knows that exploitation of the Interference in the customary methods of distributing the land-what Stand for the village community,” i.e., to protest against police Land (which evolved during the feudal period) that has everywhere in the There is nothing socialistic in it, for it is this peasant ownership of Gratuitous retention of the land the peasants possessed before the Reform, But even if one does not stand for land redemption but for the Payment of redemption money for all the land they used to have at theirĭisposal. “to stand for the allotment” means supporting the peasant’s Struggle for the complete abolition of this exploitation- while Protest and struggle against the exploitation of the working people, a Socialistic in this? Socialism, as we know, is the name given to the To accuse those who stand for “the village community and theĪllotment” of being concerned with socialism! Pray, what is there And, indeed, what a crying injustice it would be Scared by the awful accusation of being concerned with socialism that youĭid not even take the trouble to read Mr. Which also supports these principles-are they all victims of theĬalm yourself, most worthy “friend of the people”! You were so Principles, and almost the whole of our serious and respectable press, Investigators of our history and of contemporary life who support these Regulation for the peasants, who made the community and the peasants’Įconomic independence the basis of the Reform what about the The village community and the allotment? What about those who drew up the (apart from Herzen, Chernyshevsky and the Narodniks), “who stood for This terrible accusation of beingĬoncerned with socialism drives our worthy author into a rage: The allotment” as “national socialism” (which, he says, Struve for, as he alleges,Ĭlassing the ideas of those who “stand for the village community and (his article “On Capitalist Development in Russia,” “Zurīeurtheilung der kapitalis tischen Entwicklung Russlands,” appearedĬentralblatt, III, No. Struve who, in a German publication, opposed Mr. The “friends of the people” provide enough materialĮxtremely interesting in this connection is Mr. Gave rise to this idea, and what he has nowīecome. Let us see what this Russian democrat actually was in the days which Time the Russian socialists understood this, understood that a Quite the contrary a wide gulf divides these ideas, and it is high Profound qualitative difference in Russia between the ideas of the Most harmfully affects their theories and practical work, that there is no The idea, which Russian socialists here and there still cling to and which Today there are absolutely no grounds for Striking and most convincing proof that the period of Russia’s socialĭevelopment, when democracy and socialism were merged in one inseparableĪnd indissoluble whole (as was the case, for example, in Chernyshevsky’sĭay), has gone never to return. Socialists can and should learn from this onslaught. The “cultured” public, but for the useful lesson which Russian
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I think it was, not for their sake, of course, or for the sake of To this stream of liberal and censor-protected filth which they were Did it pay toĪrgue so long with such gentlemen? Was it worth while replying seriously Which has probably occurred already to more than one reader. In conclusion it will perhaps be worth while replying Lenin What the “Friends of the People” Are and How They Fight the Social-Democrats (A Reply to Articles in Russkoye Bogatstvo Opposing the Marxists) Lenin: 1894/friends: In conclusion it will perhaps be worth.