The Petty-Bourgeois Stand on the Question of Economic Disorganisation "Is it not ridiculous to appeal to a capitalist state to take action against “predatory capitalists”?"
Speech Made at the First Petrograd Conference of Shop Committees June 13 (May 31), 1917 "For control over industry to be effectively carried out it must be a workers’ control with a workers’ majority in all the leading bodies,..."
Letter to the District Committees of the Petrograd Organisation of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks) First published in 1925 in the journal Krasnaya Letopis (Red Annals), No. 3 (14).
Capitalist Mockery of the People "Unemployment is spreading. There is a shortage of goods. The peasants cannot part with their grain without getting anything in return. Famine is imminent. All this because of the capitalists, who are in collusion with the government!"
The Harm of Phrase-Mongering "The Narodnik and Menshevik ministerialists are spouting phrases about “democracy” in the abstract, about “Revolution” in the abstract in order to cover up their agreement with the imperialist, now definitely counter-revolutionary, bourgeoisie of their own country"
Meeting of the Petrograd Committee of the R.S.D.L.P. (Bolsheviks) First published in 1925 in the journal Krasnaya Letopis (Red Annals) No. 3 (14).
The Farce of Dual Power The war conditions are twisting and obscuring the action of the internal forces of the Revolution. But none the less the course of the Revolution will be determined by these same internal forces, namely, the classes.
For Lack of a Clean Principled Weapon They Snatch at a Dirty One Published in Pravda No. 68, June 10 (May 28), 1917.
Counter-Revolution Takes the Offensive (“Jacobins Without the People”) "Workers and soldiers! All toiling people! The counter revolution of the landowners and capitalists is assuming the offensive. Not a single vote for a single government party, for any parties participating in the government!"
The Shameful Menshevik-Narodnik Bloc with Yedinstvo "Workers and soldiers! All toiling people! Not a single vote to the Narodniks and Mensheviks, who are trying to drag in the “social-imperialists”!"
The Dark Forces Are For the Cadets, the Mensheviks and Narodniks Are in One Government With the Cadets "Workers and soldiers, all toiling people! Not a single vote to the Cadets, not a single vote to the Mensheviks and Narodniks!"
Reports on the Economic Debacle "They all admit that an unheard-of catastrophe is inevitable. But they do not understand the main thing—that only the revolutionary class can save the country."
The Capitalists Must Be Exposed An “orgy of pillage”—no other words can describe the behaviour of the capitalists during the war.
The Chain Is No Stronger Than Its Weakest Link ''Your iron chain was poor and rusty enough as it is, and now it has several links made not even of wood, but of clay and paper.''Published in Pravda No. 67, June 9 (May 27), 1917
“Sleight of Hand” and Unprincipled Politicians "Workers and soldiers! Not one vote to the bloc of the Narodniks and Mensheviks, who are shielding and working for Yedinstvo, which is “in unity with the liberal bourgeoisie”!"
A Question of Principle (“Forgotten Words” of Democracy) Written before May 25 (June 7), 1917 and published May 28 (June 10), 1917 in Pravda No. 68.
A Deal With the Capitalists or Overthrow of the Capitalists? (How to End the War) Published in Pravda No. 65, June 7 (May 25), 1917.
Resolution on Measures to Cope with Economic Disorganisation Published in Sotsial-Demokrat No. 64, May 25 (June 7), 1917.
First All-Russian Congress of Peasants’ Deputies ''If the words “Liberty, Equality and Fraternity” are written on a factory, as in America, the factory does not thereby cease to be a hell for the workers and a paradise for the capitalists. And so we have to think of what to do further...''Published in Izvestia June 7, 1917