Collected Works Of Josef Stalin Volume 1 – JOSEF V STALIN

The only question is: Who is engaging in tittle-tat- tle—the Social-Democrat and its queer knight, or the Union Committee? We leave that to the reader to decide. One more question and we have finished. The author says with an air of great importance: “The Union Committee reproaches us for re- peating Plekhanov’s ideas.

We regard it as a virtue to repeat the ideas of Plekhanov, Kautsky and other equally well-known Marxists”(p. 15). So you regard it as a virtue to repeat the ideas of Plekhanov and Kautsky? Splendid, gentlemen! Well, then, listen: Kautsky says that “socialist consciousness is something introduced into the proletarian class struggle from without and not something that arose out of it spontaneously” (see passage quoted from Kautsky in What Is To Be Done?, p. 27).

The same Kautsky says that “the task of Social-De- mocracy is to imbue the proletariat with the consciousness of its position and the consciousness ofits task” (ibid.). We hope that you, Mr. Menshevik, will repeat these words of Kautsky’s and dispel our doubts. Let us pass to Plekhanov. Plekhanov says: “. . . Nor do I under- stand why it is thought that Lenin’s draft,10 if adopted, would close the doors of our Party to numerous workers.

Workers who wish to join the Party will not be afraid to join an organisation. They are not afraid of discipline. But many intellectuals, thoroughly imbued with bourgeois individualism, will be afraid to join. Now that is exactly the good side about it. These bourgeois individualists are, usually, also representa- tives of opportunism of every sort. We must keep them at a distance. Lenin’s draft may serve as a barrier against their invasion of the Party, and for that reason alone all opponents of opportunism should vote for it” (see Minutes, p. 246).

We hope that you, Mr. “Critic,” will throw off your mask and with proletarian straightforwardness repeat these words of Plekhanov’s.

This hardcover edition published by Iskra Books 2022 Original Russian Edition published by the decision of the Central Commit- tee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolshevik) 1946. Original English Edition published by Foreign Languages Publishing House, Moscow 1954. First published in Russian. All rights reserved. The moral rights of the author and the preparer have been asserted.

Iskra Books Madison, Wisconsin US | UK | Ireland | Canada | Australia | India | South Africa www.peacelandbread.com/books Iskra Books is the imprint of the Center for Communist Studies, an international research center dedicated to the advancement of academic and public schol- arship in the field of Marxist-Leninist studies and applied communist theory. ISBN-13: 978-1-0880-2499-7 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Prepared by Iskra Books Typesetting and Cover Design by Ben Stahnke Printed and Distributed by IngramSpark PREFACE v THE COLLECTED WORKS OF JOSEF STALIN VOLUME ONE vi COLLECTED WORKS A young Josef Stalin in 1902 at the age of 23.

Born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili, the Georgian revolutionary would, after time in the Theological Seminary, grow to become one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Twentieth Century. The works in the present volume represent Jugashvili’s earliest published revolutionary writings—written during a period in which the author found himself hiding from the Okhrana, organizing strikes and demonstrations, being arrested and imprisoned in Siberia, escaping through the bitter cold, rising to prominence in the RSDLP, co-editing Proletariatis Brdzola, and robbing banks—a revolutionary above all else.

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