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

532 NOTES153154155156157158159160161162This refers to Lenin’s One Step Forward, Two Steps Back which appearedin Geneva in May 1904. p. 448This refers to A. Bogdanov’s book Empirio-monism, Moscow,1904. p. 448A collection of articles by A. Lunacharsky, V. Bazarov, A. Bogdanov,P. Maslov, A. Finn, V. Shulyatikov, V. Fritche and others,published in St. Petersburg in 1904. The articles by Plekhanov andLenin did not appear in this book. p. 449Lenin’s Notes of an Ordinary Marxist on Philosophy has not beenfound. p. 450At that time Lenin had begun to write his book Materialism andEmpirio-criticism. p. 450The third editor was I. F. Dubrovinsky. p. 453Lenin is referring to his article “Political Notes” published in thenewspaper Proletary, No. 21, February 13 (26), 1908. The questionof the Party programme was dealt with more fully in the article“Pyotr Maslov Corrects Karl Marx’s Rough Notes” (Proletary,No. 33, July 23 [August 5] , 1908). (See present volume, p. 300,Section 2 of Chapter III of The Agrarian Programme of Social-Democracy in the First Russian Revolution, 1905-1907.) p. 457Meons—Russian abbreviation for members of the Peaceful RenovationParty. p. 457Lenin’s article “Trade-Union Neutrality” was also published in aslightly abbreviated form in the symposium O Veyaniyakh Vremeni(Spirit of the Times), St. Petersburg, Tvorchestvo Publishers andsigned Vl. Ilyin. p. 460The resolution of the C.C. of the R.S.D.L.P. on trade unionswas published in Proletary, No. 21, February 13 (26), 1908.Party members were instructed to set up Party groups withintrade-union organisations and to work in them under the directionof the local Party centres. Where police persecution made it impossibleto organise trade unions or to recreate those that had beenbroken up, the C.C. proposed that trade-union nuclei and tradeunions should be organised illegally. As regards such legal organisationsas benefit societies, temperance societies, and others, the resolutionof the C.C. instructed the local Party organisations toform within them “well-knit groups of Social-Democrats to conductParty work among the broadest possible masses of the proletariat”.To thwart any attempt on the part of the Mensheviks to interpretthis part of the resolution in an opportunist manner, the resolutionpointed out the need for making it clear that “the organised activityof the proletariat cannot be limited to such societies alone” and