Table Of ContentWitnesses to Permanent Revolution:
The Documentary Record
Historical
Materialism
Book Series
Editorial Board
Paul Blackledge, Leeds – Sébastien Budgen, Paris
Michael Krätke, Amsterdam – Stathis Kouvelakis,
London – Marcel van der Linden, Amsterdam
China Miéville, London – Paul Reynolds, Lancashire
Peter Thomas, Amsterdam
VOLUME 21
Witnesses to Permanent
Revolution:
The Documentary Record
Edited and translated by
Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido
LEIDEN • BOSTON
2009
This book is printed on acid-free paper.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Witnesses to permanent revolution : the documentary record / edited and
translated by Richard B. Day and Daniel Gaido.
p. cm. — (Historical materialism book series ; 21)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-90-04-16770-4 (hardback : alk. paper) 1. Permanent revolution theory.
2. Trotsky, Leon, 1879-1940. I. Day, Richard B., 1942– II. Gaido, Daniel. III. Title.
IV. Series.
HX550.R48W58 2009
335.4’112--dc22
2008052017
ISSN 1570-1522
ISBN 978 90 04 167704
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Contents
Preface ............................................................................................................. xi
Introduction The Historical Origin of the Expression ‘Permanent
Revolution’ ................................................................................................. 1
Chapter One ‘The Slavs and Revolution’ (1902), Karl Kautsky ........ 59
Chapter Two The Draft Programme of ‘Iskra’ and the Tasks of
Russian Social Democrats (1903), N. Ryazanov .................................... 67
Chapter Three ‘Orthodox’ Pedantry (1903), G.V. Plekhanov ............ 135
Chapter Four ‘To What Extent Is the Communist Manifesto
Obsolete?’ (First edition: 1903 – Revised edition: June 1906),
Karl Kautsky .............................................................................................. 169
Chapter Five ‘Revolutionary Questions’ (February 1904),
Karl Kautsky .............................................................................................. 187
Chapter Six ‘What Was Accomplished on the Ninth of January’
(January 1905), Parvus ............................................................................. 251
Chapter Seven ‘Up to the Ninth of January’ (1905),
Leon Trotsky ............................................................................................... 273
Chapter Eight ‘After the Petersburg Uprising: What Next?’
(Munich, 20 January [2 February] 1905), Leon Trotsky .................... 333
Chapter Nine ‘The Revolution in Russia’ (28 January, 1905),
Rosa Luxemburg ........................................................................................ 353
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Chapter Ten ‘After the First Act’ (4 February, 1905),
Rosa Luxemburg ........................................................................................ 365
Chapter Eleven ‘The Consequences of the Japanese Victory and
Social Democracy’ (July 1905), Karl Kautsky ..................................... 373
Chapter Twelve Introduction to Ferdinand Lassalle’s Speech to
the Jury ( July 1905), Leon Trotsky .......................................................... 409
Chapter Thirteen ‘Social Democracy and Revolution’
(25 November [12 November], 1905), Leon Trotsky ............................ 447
Chapter Fourteen ‘The Revolution in Permanence’
(1 November 1905), Franz Mehring ........................................................ 457
Chapter Fifteen ‘The Next Questions of our Movement’
(September 1905), N. Ryazanov .............................................................. 465
Chapter Sixteen ‘Our Tasks’ (13 November 1905), Parvus ................ 479
Chapter Seventeen Foreword to Karl Marx, Parizhskaya Kommuna
(December 1905), Leon Trotsky ............................................................... 497
Chapter Eighteen ‘The Russian Revolution’ (20 December 1905),
Rosa Luxemburg ......................................................................................... 521
Chapter Nineteen ‘Old and New Revolution’ (December 1905),
Karl Kautsky .............................................................................................. 529
Chapter Twenty ‘The Sans-Culottes of the French Revolution’
(1889, reprinted December 1905), Karl Kautsky .................................. 537
Chapter Twenty-One ‘The Role of the Bourgeoisie and the
Proletariat in the Russian Revolution’, Speech to the Fifth
(London) Congress of the Russian Social-Democratic Labour
Party (25 May 1907), Rosa Luxemburg .................................................. 543
Contents • ix
Chapter Twenty-Two ‘The Driving Forces of the Russian
Revolution and Its Prospects’ (November 1906), Karl Kautsky ..... 567
Chapter Twenty-Three ‘The American Worker’ (February 1906),
Karl Kautsky .............................................................................................. 609
References ...................................................................................................... 663
Index ............................................................................................................... 679
