Lenin: One should know how to 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒃𝒊𝒏𝒆 the struggle for democracy and the struggle for the socialist revolution, 𝒔𝒖𝒃𝒐𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 the first to the second. In this lies the whole difficulty; in this is the whole essence. The Tolstoyans and the anarchists throw out the first. Bukharin and Radek have become confused, failing to combine the first with the second. But I say: don’t lose sight of the 𝒎𝒂𝒊𝒏 thing (the socialist revolution); put it first (Junius has not done this); put 𝒂𝒍𝒍 the democratic demands, but subordinating them to it, co-ordinating them with it (Radek + Bukharin unwisely eliminate one of them), and bear in mind that the struggle for the main thing may blaze up even though it has begun with the struggle for something partial. In my opinion, only this conception of the matter is the right one. https://wordsmith.social/protestation/quotes#quote4090