[5] The State in Russia—Old and New, by Leon Trotzky; The Class Struggle, Vol. II, No. 2, pp. 213-221.
[6] This document is printed in full at the end of the volume as Appendix. I
[7] The author of the present study is responsible for the use of italics in this document.
[8] Litvinov, The Bolshevik Revolution: Its Rise and Meaning, p. 30.
[9] Lenine is not quite accurate in his statement of Marx's views nor quite fair in stating the position of the "opportunists." The argument of Marx in The Civil War in France is not that the proletariat must "break down" the governmental machinery, but that it must modify it and adapt it to the class needs. This is something quite different, of course. Moreover, it is the basis of the policy of the "opportunists." The Mensheviki and other moderate Socialists in Russia were trying to modify and adapt the political state.
[10] The reference is to Karl Kautsky, the great German exponent of Marxian theory.
[11] The New International (American Bolshevik organ), June 30, 1917.
[12] The New International, July 23, 1917.
[13] Litvinov, op. cit., p. 31.
[14] The New International, April, 1918.