Plan for Three Talks on the Social-Democratic Programme (original) (raw)

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 | | | | [SQUIGLY:] Plan for first talk[SQUIGLY:]on the Social-Democratic programme | | | | 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_. | |