But the
latter he would take out of the hands of the government entirely. "Peace
negotiations should not be carried on by and with bourgeois governments,
but with the proletariat in each of the warring countries." In his
criticism of Kerensky and Tchcheidze the Bolshevik leader was especially
scornful and bitter.
In a letter which he addressed to the Socialists of Switzerland immediately
after his departure for Russia, Lenine gave a careful statement of his own
position and that of his friends. It shows an opportunistic attitude of
mind which differs from the opportunistic attitude of the moderate
Socialists _in direction only_, not in the _quality of being
opportunistic_:
Historic conditions have made the Russians, _perhaps for a short
period_, the leaders of the revolutionary world proletariat, _but
Socialism cannot now prevail in Russia_. We can expect only an
agrarian revolution, which will help to create more favorable
conditions for further development of the proletarian forces and
_may result in measures for the control of production and
distribution_.
The main results of the present Revolution will have to be _the
creation of more favorable conditions for further revolutionary
development_, and to influence the more highly developed European
countries into action.
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