'Democracy will remain an idle deceitful phrase, or merely a half-measure, unless the entire people is given a chance immediately and unqualifiedly to learn how to handle arms.' Written May 23 (10), 1917; published in Pravda No. 55 May 25 (12).
Published May 24 (11), 1917 in the newspaper Soldatskaya Pravda No. 19.
'Seizure of power by the workers and the peasants could solve our country’s most pressing problems'. (Brief newspaper report)
Lenin's Speeches at the first All-Russia Congress of Soviets of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, June 16 to July 7 (June 3 to 24), 1917.
Lenin on the tasks of factory committees in fighting against Economic dislocation.
It is a lie to say that “the Robert Grimms and the Rakovskys" have “collaborated” with the Bolsheviks (with whom they have never agreed) in any way.
The Diehards [1] of June 3 Favour an Immediate Offensive
That the new coalition government is precisely this sort of alliance between the capitalists and the Narodnik and Menshevik leaders is far from obvious to all. Perhaps it is not obvious even to the Ministers belonging to these parties. Yet it is a fact.
Is there a way to peace without an exchange of annexations, without the division of spoils among the capitalist robbers?
There is: through a workers’ revolution against the capitalists of the world.
Plekhanov’s Yedinstvo (which even the Socialist-Revolutionary Dyelo Naroda justly calls a newspaper at one with the liberal bourgeoisie) has recently recalled the law of the French Republic of 1793 relating to enemies of the people.
Dear comrades writing for Novaya Zhizn, you resent our criticism, which you call angry. We shall try to be mild and kind.
“Comrades, the resistance of the capitalists has apparently been broken.”
