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description: .1) Because that trend in our social thought which goes by the name of Socialist-Revolutionary is in fact moving away and has indeed moved away from the only international theory of revolutionary socialism existing today i.e. from Marxism. In the great split of international Social-Democracy into an opportunist wing (or Bernsteinian) and a revolutionary wing this trend has taken up an entirely indefinite and impermissibly irresolute position between two stools. Basing itself solely on the bourgeois and opportunist criticism of Marxism it has pronounced the latter to have been shaken (Vestnik Busskoi Revolutsii No. 2 p. 62) and promised on its part to revise Marxism anew in its own way but has done nothing whatever to fulfil this ominous promise.2) Because the Socialist-Revolutionary trend helplessly yields to the dominant tendency in Russian social and political thought which should be termed liberal Narodism. Repeating the error of the Narodnaya Volya and of old Russian socialism in general the Socialist-Revolutionaries fail to see the sheer flabbiness and internal contradictions of this tendency; their independent creative contribution to Russian revolutionary thought is restricted to tacking revolutionary phrases on to the old testament of liberal Narodnik wisdom. Russian Marxism was the first to under mine the theoretical foundations of liberal Narodism to lay bare its bourgeois and petty-bourgeois class con tent and to have waged and continue to wage war against it undeterred by the desertion of a swarm of critical (opportunist) Marxists to the enemy camp. But the stand the Socialist-Revolutionaries have been holding in this war is (at best) one of hostile neutrality; here again they have seated themselves between two stools between Russian Marxism (from which they have borrowed only a few paltry shreds) and quasi-socialist liberal Narodism.3) Because the Socialist-Revolutionaries owing to their above-mentioned complete lack of principle in questions of international and Russian socialism do not understand or do not recognise the only really revolutionary principle that of the class straggle. They do not understand that only a party which fuses socialism with the Russian working-class movement being engendered with increasing force and on an increasing scale by the growth of Russian capitalism can be really revolutionary and truly socialist in Russia today. The attitude of the Socialist-Revolutionaries towards the Russian working-class movement has always been that of dilettante spectators and when for instance that movement contracted the illness of economism (as a consequence of its amazingly rapid growth) the Socialist-Revolutionaries on the one hand gloated over the mistakes made by people who were working at the new and difficult task of rousing the masses of the workers and on the other hand put a spoke in the wheel of revolutionary Marxism when it launched and victoriously carried through the struggle against this economism. A half-hearted attitude towards the working-class movement inevitably leads in fact to aloofness from it and owing to this aloofness the Socialist-Revolutionary Party has no social basis whatever. It does not rely upon any social class for the term class cannot be applied to a group of unstable intellectuals who qualify their vagueness and lack of principle as broadness.
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title: .Why the Social-Democrats Must Declare a Determined and Relentless War on the Socialist-Revolutionaries
publisher: .Prozhekior,