What Is to Be Done? [Burning Questions of Our Movement]

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The fact that Lenin's 'What is to be done?' has become one of the classic texts of communism and one of the works upon which Lenin's fame, and to a certain extent his notoriety, rests, may at first seem rather surprising. To begin with, the author himself apologises in the Preface for the very considerable 'literary shortcomings' of the pamphlet, written as it was in great haste and under extreme pressure. Secondly, much space is taken up with references to obscure journals and long-forgotten Russian socialists. The sheer force and clear-sightedness, however, of Lenin's ideas and arguments overcome any minor shortcomings.'What is to be done?' was written by Lenin principally in response to a growing opportunist trend within contemporary Russian Social-Democracy: Economism. Lenin, representing the revolutionary wing of Russian Social-Democracy, in 'What is to be done?' ruthlessly destroys this dangerous tendency, which believed that the working-class should carry on the economic ie trade-union struggle while a group of intellectuals carried on the political struggle. Lenin clearly expounds all the reactionary implications of this position.While it is important to keep in mind the period in which Lenin was writing, a period of absolute police and state repression under the tsarist autocracy which demanded the strictest secrecy on the part of revolutionaries, and Lenin's subsequent revision of some of the views elucidated in the pamphlet, 'What is to be done?' nevertheless contains an invaluable array of lessons for today's revolutionaries and communists, especially on the role of the party and its organisation, and the importance of revolutionary theory.Anyone wanting to dig deeper into the traditions of Marxism-Leninism should aim to read and study this pamphlet. The struggle against opportunism, and the need for a democratically centralised militant organisation to infuse the present anti-war mobilisations with the weapons of scientific-socialism is once again a 'burning question of our movement'. 'What is to be done?' and the legacy of Lenin must be reclaimed."Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement."

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