Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 26 - From Marx to Mao

REVISION OF THE PARTY PROGRAMME155IILet the reader observe the general arrangement and thesequence of topics in the various sections of the old programme(we follow Comrade Sokolnikov’s numerical scheme):1. The labour movement has long since become international.We are one of its contingents.2. The final goal of the movement is determined by thecourse of development of bourgeois society. The point ofdeparture is that the means of production are privatelyowned and the proletariat is propertyless.3. The growth of capitalism. The crowding out of the smallproducers.4. The growth of exploitation (female labour, the reservelabour army, etc.).5. Crises.6. The progress of technology; the growth of inequality.7. Growing struggle on the part of the proletariat. Materialconditions for the replacement of capitalism by socialism.8. The proletarian social revolution.9. Its premise—the dictatorship of the proletariat.10. The task of the Party—to lead the struggle of the proletariatfor the social revolution.I add another point:11. Capitalism has developed to its highest stage (imperialism),and the era of the proletarian revolution has nowset in.Compare this with the arrangement of the subject matter—not the individual corrections to the text, but the subjectmatter itself—in Comrade Sokolnikov’s draft, and also thepoints he adds on imperialism.1. The labour movement is international. We are one ofits contingents. (Inserted—the export of capital, worldeconomy, the growth of the struggle into the world revolution;i.e., a bit of the definition of imperialism isinserted.)2. The final goal of the movement is determined by thecourse of development of bourgeois society. The point ofdeparture is that the means of production are privatelyowned and the proletariat is propertyless. (In the middleis inserted: omnipotent banks and syndicates, monopoly