Marxism and reformism

by Vladimir Lenin

Genres: Lenin, Politics, Nonfiction

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About the author

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, leader of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks), statesman and political theorist. After the October Revolution he served as the first and founding head of government of Soviet Russia from 1917 until his death in 1924 and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death in 1924.

Reviews

[jas · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great reminder that a "social-bourgeoisie" will use reforms to avoid the agitation leading to class struggle, but as Lenin states "the workers, having seen through the falsity of reformism, utilise reforms to develop and broaden their class struggle" in order to retain improvements, rather than merely accepting reforms that can be rescinded.

"The liberal bourgeoisie grant reforms with one hand, and with the other always take them back, reduce them to nought, use them to enslave the workers, to divide them into separate groups and perpetuate wage-slavery. For that reason reformism, even when quite sincere, in practice becomes a weapon by means of which the bourgeoisie corrupt and weaken the workers"

[Sisyphus00]

a good short read in identifying the difference of between reformist ideas and marxist ideas. we should able to discern these two in propagandas and policies, so we can oppose reformist works that deceive the masses from progressive ideas and stagnating the progress of the society.

[Simon · Rating 5 out of 5]

Lenin schreibt im Vergleich zu "anderen Zeitgenossen" wirklich sehr direkt, sehr verständlich und präzise. Seine zeitgenössischen Anekdoten sind quasi unmöglich nachzuvollziehen, aber seine theoretischen Schlüsse sind dafür zeitlos