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 and numerous insurrection of the bourgeoisie, aided and abetted on all sides by foreign capitalists! There is absolutely no difference whatever between Kautsky and the counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie so far as practice is concerned. His sweetly-reasonable arguments with the borrowed plumes of Socialism only repeat what is constantly said straightforwardly, without embellishments and without great refinement, by all the Kornilovites, the Dutovites, and Krasnovites in Russia.

The above lines were written on November 9th, 1918. In the night following news was received from Germany announcing the beginnigbeginning [sic] of a victorious revolution, at first at Kiel and other northern towns and ports, where power had passed into the hands of Councils of Workers' and Soldiers; Delegates, and then in Berlin, where the authority has also passed into the hands of the Soviet. The conclusion which I was going to write on Kautsky's pamphlet and on the proletarian revolution has thereby been rendered superfluous.

November 10, 1918.

N. LENIN.