V. I.   Lenin

Three Constitutions or Three Systems of Government


Published: Published in leaflet form in June-July 1905. Published according to the text of the leaflet.
Source: Lenin Collected Works, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1962, Moscow, Volume 8, pages 557-559.
Translated: Bernard Isaacs and The Late Isidor Lasker
Transcription\Markup: R. Cymbala
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RUSSIAN SOCIAL-DEMOCRATIC LABOUR PARTY

Workers of all countries, unite!

What do the police and officials want?

The absolute monarchy.

What do the most liberal of the bourgeois (the people of the Osvobozhdeniye, or the Constitutional-Democratic Party) want?

The constitutional monarchy.

What do the class-conscious workers (the Social-Democrats) want?

The democratic republic.

OF WHAT DO THESE SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT CONSIST?

 

WHAT IS THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THESE SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT?

 

WHAT PURPOSE SHALL THESE SYSTEMS OF GOVERNMENT SERVE?


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