Collected Works of V. I. Lenin - Vol. 13 - From Marx to Mao

366V. I. LENINThese quotations should suffice to show how those whowere, or are, fully in sympathy with the Stockholm programme,are destroying it by the way they interpret it.The fault here lies in the hopeless muddle in the programme;in theory it is bound up with the repudiation of Marx’stheory of rent, in practice it is an adaptation to the impossible“middle” event of local democracy under a non-democraticcentral government, and in economics it amountsto introducing petty-bourgeois, quasi-socialist reformism intothe programme of the bourgeois revolution.C H A P T E R VCLASSES AND PARTIES IN THE DEBATEON THE AGRARIAN QUESTIONIN THE SECOND DUMAWe think it will be useful to approach the question ofthe workers’ party’s agrarian programme in the Russianbourgeois revolution from another and somewhat differentangle. The analysis of the economic conditions for the revolutionand of the political arguments in favour of thisor that programme should be supplemented by a pictureof the struggle between the different classes and partiesthat will as far as possible embrace all the interests andplace them in direct contrast to one another. Only such apicture can give us an idea of the thing we are discussing(the struggle for the land in the Russian revolution) as awhole, excluding the one-sided and accidental character ofindividual opinions, and testing theoretical conclusions bythe practical intuition of the persons concerned. As individuals,any representatives of parties and classes may err,but when they come out in the public arena, before theentire population, the individual errors are inevitably rectifiedby the corresponding groups or classes that are interestedin the struggle. Classes do not err; on the whole,they decide their interests and political aims in conformitything on them in that respect” (p. 16, The Question of the AgrarianProgramme, by Maslov and Kautsky, Novy Mir Publishers, Moscow,1906). This quite definite statement by Kautsky certainly excludesmunicipalisation of the land, which the Mensheviks, want to impose onthe peasants.