Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 16 - From Marx to Mao

IDEOLOGICAL DECAY AND DISUNITY AMONG RUSSIAN S.D.109nary, and this slogan was and remains utopian. It shouldbe discarded, together with the democratic republic, forthe Russian train has gone on to the German lines.”... 60It is clear that we have here an instantaneous photographof one of the rivulets of that broad torrent of ideologicalconfusion which gives rise to otzovism and liquidationism,sometimes fantastically mixing up and even blending togetherthe premises of extreme Right and extreme “Left”idiotism. The first half of these premises (the absence ofcontradiction between the bourgeoisie and feudalistic landownership,etc.) is so illogical and absurd that it is difficulteven to take it seriously. It is not worth cry...*.Written at the end of November(beginning of December), 1909First published in 1933in Lenin Miscellany XXVPublished according tothe manuscript* The manuscript here breaks off.—Ed.