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What Is To Be Done: Lenin's View A Revolutionary Party
Just what I like about this book by Lenin published by International Publishers in 1970 it explains the difference between a ruling class party and how it functions and a revolutionary proletarian party. Very clearly he defends his concept of democratic centralism and its relevancy not only Russia October 1917 but every where including the industrial world as well as "emerging nations."
He justifies the party organization based on the French Jacobins and the Sons of Liberty. These revolutionary organizations clerly operated secretly and with a united public viewpoint.
What I disliked about the book is the criticism lodged against Lenin by Rosa Luxemburgh who believed such a party organization leads to the potential of a tyrant taking over. As we all know today this is exactly what happened after Lenin's death in 1924. There are parties today on the left that maintain this very strick discpline which for most working people feel estranged from.
I decide to buy this book to share and discuss with my students of Marxism.Lire l'avis complet...
Landmark book on how to organize for change,
Lenin's work "What is to be done" is a cornerstone piece of any progressive or Marxist library. In addition, any student interested in labor organizing, advocacy, community development, local and international causes, needs to look at Lenin's proposal for organizing and preparing for change--with the central need to have an independent, revolutionary Party--to achieve those goals as the Russian Revolution did. Correlations can be made to Black women's church organizing committees that sparked the Civil Rights movement and other contemporary examples.Lire l'avis complet...