What Is to Be Done?

De: Vladimir Lenin

Narrado por: Adam Douglas

Duración: 5 h y 42 m

Resumen del Editor

What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement (1902) is a political pamphlet written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin. Lenin contends that the working class will not become politically aware simply by struggling with employers over wages, hours and working conditions. He maintains that Marxists should form a political party of committed revolutionaries to spread Marxist political ideas among the workers.

The pamphlet was partly responsible for the split of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party into Lenin's Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. Claiming that socialist theory was the product of the "revolutionary socialist intellectuals", Lenin states that the working class was able to develop only a “trade-union consciousness". He points out that Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, the founders of modern scientific socialism, belonged to this bourgeois intelligentsia.

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incredibly salient, even today

An analytical work on what to do if you're at odds with the state. Great book.

Revolutions 101

Concise and articulate information that gives great guidance on the pitfalls of radical movements. The way Lenin makes the case for a movement based on political and economic pains shows how ahead of his time Lenin was. He died too soon.

4/5 meow meow beans

This book was more superficial than i wanted it to be. 3rd part is where the listening really gets good, but shoot! i did not retain this argument well.

a blueprint for a revolution

written 7 years before the Russian revolution in 1917. an amazing outline of, like he says, what is to be done.