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

428V. I. LENINMarx) is to reveal an inability to think of the tasks eachSocial-Democratic party has to perform in special periodsof its historical development.Thirdly, the municipalisation programme obviously reflectsthe erroneous tactical line of Menshevism in the Russianbourgeois revolution, namely, a failure to understandthat only “an alliance between the proletariat and the peasantry”*can ensure the victory of this revolution, a failureto understand the leading role the proletariat playsin the bourgeois revolution, a striving to push the proletariataside, to adapt it to a half-way outcome of the revolution,to convert it from a leader into an auxiliary (actuallyinto a drudge and servant) of the liberal bourgeoisie.“Never enthusing, adaptation using, forward then slowly,ye workers so lowly”—these words of Nartsis Tuporylov 144against the “Economists” (=the first opportunists in theR.S.D.L.P.), fully express the spirit of our present agrarianprogramme.Combating the “enthusiasm” of petty-bourgeois socialismshould lead not to the contraction, but to the expansionof the scope of the revolution and its aims as determinedby the proletariat. It is not “regionalism” that we shouldencourage, no matter how strong it may be among the backwardstrata of the petty bourgeoisie or the privileged peasantry(Cossacks), not the exclusiveness of various nationalities—no,we should make the peasantry see how importantunity is if victory is to be achieved, we should advanceslogans that will widen the movement, not narrow it, andthat will place the responsibility for the incomplete bourgeoisrevolution on the backwardness of the bourgeoisieand not on the lack of understanding of the proletariat. Weshould not “adapt” our programme to “local” democracy;we should not invent a rural “municipal socialism”, whichis absurd and impossible under an undemocratic centralgovernment, we should not adjust petty-bourgeois socialistreformism to the bourgeois revolution, but concentratethe attention of the masses on the actual conditions for thevictory of the revolution as a bourgeois revolution, on the* That is how Kautsky expressed it in the second edition of hispamphlet Social Revolution.