‘What Is to Be Done?’ (1902) is a political tract written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. Lenin argues that the working class will not become politically aware simply by challenging employers about wages, hours and working conditions. He contends that Marxists should form a political party of committed revolutionaries to spread Marxist political ideas among the workers. The tract was partly responsible for the split of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party into Lenin's Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Claiming that the working class was only able to develop a “trade-union consciousness", he states that socialist theory was the product of the "revolutionary socialist intellectuals". He points out that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the founders of scientific socialism, belonged to this bourgeois intelligentsia.
Collected Works Of Marxism, Anarchism, Communism : The Communist Manifesto, Reform or Revolution, The Conquest of Bread, Anarchism: What it Really Stands, The State and Revolution, Fascism: What It Is and How To Fight It
Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Rosa Luxemburg, Peter Kropotkin, Emma Goldman, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky
audiobookImperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism
Vladimir Lenin
audiobookThe Three Sources and Three Component Parts of Marxism
Vladimir Lenin
audiobook20 First Legislative Acts of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
audiobookWhat Is to Be Done?
Vladimir Lenin
audiobookImperialism: The Final Stage of Capitalism. Illustrated
Vladimir Lenin
bookWhat Is to Be Done? Illustrated
Vladimir Lenin
bookThe Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
Vladimir Lenin
bookThe Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
Vladimir Lenin
bookTwo Tactics of Social-Democracy In The Democratic Revolution
Vladimir Lenin
audiobookTwo Tactics of Social-Democracy
Vladimir Lenin
audiobook20 First Legislative Acts of the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. Illustrated : Decree on Peace by Vladimir Lenin, Decree on Land by Vladimir Lenin and others
Vladimir Lenin
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