He has the knack of placing his omission marks precisely where he requires them and where they would be useful for the opposition! We will add another quotation to the rest. In §45 of the "ABC of Communism” reference is made to the petty bourgeois character of the country, of the private property instincts of the peasantry and of relics of these instincts still be found amongst certain sections of the workers. What conclusions are drawn from this in the book? First, that the task of constructing Socialism in Russia "is an extremely difficult one"; secondly, that various defects of an internal character "hamper the fulfilment of our tasks, but by no means make this fulfilment impossible." This is far from being according to Zinoviev; it is according to Lenin.
