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of the Russian revolution is determined by the peasantry; that in one way or another, through the medium of a Bolshevik Party or without it, through its initiative or against its will, by its remaining in power or by its degeneration or overthrow, a new capitalism will arise resting upon the peasanty—the majority of the population. Such is the Social-Democratic theory on the question of the character of our revolution, or, what amounts to the same thing, on the possibility of constructing Socialism in our country.
This exhausts the list of the critics of Bolshevism on this question outside the Bolshevik ranks. Now it is the turn of the critics comprising those groups and tendencies within our Party.
