The secret Society Zemlja i Volja, 1862; Velikorus'; the "Organisation" of the Karakozovcy (1865).—The first Attempt on the life of Alexander II, made by Karakozov in 1866.—The first revolutionary Proclamations: Young Russia, 1862; To the Younger Generation, 1861.—The Addresses
§ 112.Nature and Development of the political Radicalism of the Sixties and Seventies.—The Socialism of the Day mainly agrarian; the Narodničestvo.—Terror without Mass Movement.—Individualism and Terrorism; Terrorism and Social Revolution.—Marxism and Bakuninism; nihilist Utilitarianism versus Bakuninist Revolutionism.—Socialism and Politism.—Increasing Significance of the urban Workers; the Movement not a Student's Movement
§ 113.Nihilism and Terrorism are not identical in Nature.—Stepniak's ethical Theory of Terror as a Means of Self-defence, a Theory based on natural Right; a Life for a Life!—The Bourgeois is the Enemy, but we strike down the Gendarme.—The philosophical Problem of Nihilism as Atheism
Chapter Fifteen: The so-called Sociological Subjectivists; Lavrov and Mihailovskii.
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§ 115.Lavrov as Philosopher of History and Theorist of Subjectivism; Comte and Kant.—Lavrov's "Historical Realism" and his Conception of History; Consciousness versus Nature
§ 116.Lavrov accepts the Comtist developmental Scheme, but modifies it in a socialist and Darwinist Sense.—Universal History as a World Assize; History and Ethics.—The Illusion of Freedom.—The critically-thinking Individuality as the motive Force in History; Criticism and Faith.—Lavrov's Formula of Progress and his progressive Imperative.—The three Duties of the "more definite" Individual: Propaganda; Organisation of the socialist Party; a progressive Example.—The Duty of working for Progress as a Duty to promote Revolution; Lavrov's revolutionary Scepticism.—Lavrov's Concessions to Terrorism