What Is to Be Done?

Lenin s work What Is To Be Done was written at the end of 1901 and early in 1902 In Where To Begin , published in Iskra, No 4 May 1901 , Lenin said that the article represented a skeleton plan to be developed in greater detail in a pamphlet now in preparation for print.Lenin began the actual writing of the book in the autumn of 1901 In his Preface to the Pamphlet Documents of the Unity Conference , written in November 1901, Lenin said that the book was in preparation to be published in the near future In December Lenin published in Iskra, No 12 his article A Talk with Defenders of Economism , which he later called a conspectus of What Is To Be Done He wrote the Preface to the book in February 1902 and early in March the book was published by Dietz in Stuttgart An announcement of its publication was printed in Iskra, No 18, March 10, 1902.In republishing the book in 1907 as part of the collection Twelve Years, Lenin omitted Section A of Chapter V, Who Was Offended by the Article Where To Begin, stating in the Preface that the book was being published with slight abridgements, representing the omission solely of details of the organisational relationships and minor polemical remarks Lenin added five footnotes to the new edition.The text of this volume is that of the 1902 edition, verified with the 1907 edition.source Marxists Internet Archive Free Read Kindle ePUB What Is to Be Done? By Vladimir Lenin – kino-fada.fr I don t get it Not that book, that I get What I don t get is why every popular Marxist book I read, I come away with an entirely different reading than the main stream interpretation I don t possess faculties other do not, so what is it Does Marxism make them look a little too hard in the mirror Are the concepts too abstract Is the moral duty put upon their shoulders too heavy If you ve heard about this book, and you probably have, you think you know it s a book all about how to establish I don t get it Not that book, that I get What I don t get is why every popular Marxist book I read, I come away with an entirely different reading than the main stream interpretation I don t possess faculties other do not, so what is it Does Marxism make them look a little too hard in the mirror Are the concepts too abstract Is the moral duty put upon their shoulders too heavy If you ve heard about this book, and you probably have, you think you know it s a book all about how to establish an authoritarian vanguard party that works for the interest of the working class alone, to usher in some kind of ...What can be done a Go on strike.b SPAM the world with Zibaldone.c Boycott , gr, Burgerville.d Speak truth to power which doesn t listen.e Flood the Feed with nsfw book covers like.f Remind folks thatwants to sell advertising space g Adblock...We get it, Lenin, social democrats suck Indeed they do But besides that, do you have anything else to say No, justramblings about russian social democrats Too badHistory students have to read this one After 120 years of socialist theorizing someone had to make it work in practice Lenin and Stalin did just that The key was to remove all mass input and ensure that a group of professional apparatchiks i.e full time, professional functionary of the Communist Party be put in place to keep every one under the Party s thumb It worked brilliantly In l...We have noted that the entire student youth of the period was absorbed in Marxism Of course, these students were not only, or even not so much, interested in Marxism as a theory they were interested in it as an answer to the question, What is to be done , as a call to take the field against the enemy These new warriors marched to battle with astonishingly primitive equipment and training In a vast number of cases they had almost no equipment and absolutely no training They marched to war We have noted that the entire student youth of the period was absorbed in Marxism Of course, these students were not only, or even not so much, interested in Marxism as a theory they were interested in it as an answer to the question, Wh...I am not a Communist.I have the firm belief, however, that before stating what I am not I have to understand what I am against I thought that to understand Communism I had to read one of its primary sources, so I read one of the two great treatises of Communism the other one being State and Revolution, also by V I Lenin It wasn t a smooth read What is to be Done is full of both passion and vitriol It is an uncompromising explanation and exhortation to all workers, all proletarians, I am not a Communist.I have the firm belief, however, that before stating what I am not I have to understand what I am against I thought that to understand Communism I had to read one of its primary sources, so I read one of the two great treatises of Communism the other one being State and Revolution, also by V I Lenin It wasn t a smooth read What is to be Done is full of both passion and vitriol It is an uncompromising explanation and exhortation to all wor...What Is to Be Done Burning Questions of Our Movement is one of V I Lenin s most important works It lays out his strategy of revolutionary change This slender volume attempts to lay out an approach to revolutionary change The key actor is the party, to serve as a vanguard for the masses, to make decisions in their name and in their interest One function of the party is to accelerate the development of class consciousness among the Russian have notes Lenin observes that Everyone agre What Is to Be Done Burning Questions of Our Movement is one of V I Lenin s most important works It lays out his strategy of revolutionary change This slender volume attempts to lay out an approach to revolutionary change The key actor is the party, to serve as a vanguard for the masses, to make decisions in their name and in their interest One function of the party is to accelerate the development of class consciousness among the Russian have notes Lenin observes that Everyone agrees that it is necessary to develop the political consciousness of the working class The question is, how that this is to be done and what is required...It took me sometime to finish this book, not due to it being particularly hard, but due to limited time.I must say i did not enjoyed such a book in a long time Both as a political piece and as history book this is something worth checking out, well ...This book is the prof that the only good communist is a dead one, Lenin was a crazy man, killing every one that may be a threat is not the best thing to do, there must be a bourgeoisie or who is going to mange the business, he have killed the most important people in the society, no won...Mildly fun to read, but are these ideas good ideas

• English
• 02 November 2017
Vladimir Lenin
• Paperback
• 272 pages
• 0140181261
• Vladimir Lenin
• What Is to Be Done?