Collected Works - Volume 4

These writings are devoted to the struggle for the victory of revolutiollary Marxism in the working-class movement and to the exposure of the anti-revolutionary views of the Narodniks, “legal Marxists,” and “economists.”

“A Note on the Question of the Market Theory (Apropos of the Polemic of Messrs. Tugan-Baranovsky and Bulgakov),” “Once More on the Theory of Realisation,” and “Capitalism in Agriculture (Kautsky’s Book and Mr. Bulgakov’s Article)” were directed against the “legal Marxists,” who sought to subordinate and adapt the working-class movement to the interests of the bourgeoisie.

This volume contains Lenin’s first writings against “economism”: “A Protest by Russian Social-Democrats,” articles for the third issue of Rabochaya Gazeta, “A Retrograde Trend in Russian Social-Democracy,” and “Apropos of the Profession de foi,” in which he laid bare the opportunism of the “economists” and showed “economism” to be a variety of international opportunism (“Bernsteinism on Russian soil”). Against the anti-Marxist positions adopted by the “economists,” Lenin contraposed the plan of the unity of socialism with the working-class movement.