ilchinealach reviewed Two tactics of social-democracy in the democratic revolution by Vladimir Ilich Lenin (Little Lenin Library -- v.17)
Review of 'Two tactics of social-democracy in the democratic revolution' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
four stars for historical interest rather than entertainment value; this is v dry Lenin as opposed to entertainingly abusive Lenin, his barbs are quite bland here.
this was written post-1905 when the revolution was beginning to bear constitutional fruit in the form of the Duma but before it became clear how conditional these advances were. Lenin sets himself the task of discrediting socialists who have turned towards liquidating into the constitutional bourgeois movement (Mensheviks, legal Marxists etc.) as well as maximalists (SRs and anarchists calling for immediate declaration of the socialist republic) and justifying against both the Bolshevik stance which insists that the next revolution will be constitutional / democratic / bourgeois (he hadn't come around to Trotsky's permanent revolution yet) but that it is possible to carve out maximal gains for the proletariat and peasantry in moving it forward
Lenin had just lost control of the Iskra editorial board …
four stars for historical interest rather than entertainment value; this is v dry Lenin as opposed to entertainingly abusive Lenin, his barbs are quite bland here.
this was written post-1905 when the revolution was beginning to bear constitutional fruit in the form of the Duma but before it became clear how conditional these advances were. Lenin sets himself the task of discrediting socialists who have turned towards liquidating into the constitutional bourgeois movement (Mensheviks, legal Marxists etc.) as well as maximalists (SRs and anarchists calling for immediate declaration of the socialist republic) and justifying against both the Bolshevik stance which insists that the next revolution will be constitutional / democratic / bourgeois (he hadn't come around to Trotsky's permanent revolution yet) but that it is possible to carve out maximal gains for the proletariat and peasantry in moving it forward
Lenin had just lost control of the Iskra editorial board and refers to them throughout as 'the new-Iskraists', which I found amusing