Red Menace: "What Is To Be Done?" - Lenin
What is to be Done? is a classic work on the role and organisation of the revolutionary party in the communist movement. Lenin criticises economism, revisionism and spontaneity, and argues persuasively for a centralised and professional vanguard of the proletariat.
On this episode of Red Menace Alyson and Breht explain and reflect on the text, and then extract the core lessons for revolutionaries today.
What Is To Be Done? by V.I. Lenin
Full text here: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1901/witbd/
The video episode can be found on youtube at: https://youtu.be/1lRM_fsjanE
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