Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Second Communist International | |
Auhtor: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | |
| Language: english Published: 1903 Genres:political, revolutionary, social historyDownloads: 100 eBook size: 223Kb Review by Dr. Bojan Tunguz, March 2007 Rating: (*****) Copyright: Public Domain in the U.S. Please check the copyright status in your country. | |
Summary of the Book 'Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Second Communist International':
Before he became the general of the revolution Lenin was its pedant the journalist-scholar who married Marxist theory to an incisive analysis of insurrectionist tactics. His theories of what society ought to be and how that ideal must be achieved were the products of thousands of hours spent reading.
The incomprehensibility of Lenin is precisely this all-consuming intellectuality--the fact that from his calculations from his neat pen flowed seas of blood whereas by nature this was not an evil person writes Andrei Sinyavsky one of the key dissidents of the 1960s. On the contrary Vladimir Ilyich was a rather kind person whose cruelty was stipulated by science and incontrovertible historical laws. As were his love of power and his political intolerance.
Excerpts from the Book 'Theses on the Fundamental Tasks of the Second Communist International':
... of the revolutionary proletariat in all capitalist countries have fully grasped the fundamental principles of the Communist International, viz., ...
... while actually remaining in all their practical party and political work, on the level of the Second International. Such a state of affairs ...
... so as to preserve private ownership of the means of production. Only the forcible overthrow of the bourgeoisie, the confiscation of its property, ...
... the idea, common among the old parties and the old leaders of the Second International, that the majority of the exploited toilers can achieve complete ...
... of the population. Finally, it is only after they have been really emancipated from the yoke of the bourgeoisie and of the bourgeois machinery ...
... that struggle most widespread, intense and ruthless. Owing to the extreme intensification of the struggle all groups, parties and leaders in the ...
... proletarian organisations of absolutely every type - not only political, but also trade union, co-operative, educational, etc. The more complete, lengthy ...
... and crushed by the capitalist class, come under the full leadership of the only class trained for that leadership by the whole history of capitalism. ...
... to and accept the doctrine that the guidance from the proletariat is essential, as the only way of escape from capitalist slavery. We must learn to approach ...
... be called the social mainstay of the bourgeoisie. No preparation of the proletariat for the overthrow of the bourgeoisie is possible, even in the preliminary ...
... the masses, of imbuing them with complete confidence in the leadership of the revolutionary proletariat. Without such preparation, no dictatorship ...
... revolutionary proletariat of its press. To combat this, the Communist parties must create a new type of periodical press for mass distribution ...
... did under the tsar, after 1905 secondly, illegal leaflets, even the briefest and published at irregular intervals, but reprinted at numerous printshops ...
... resolve that, in view of the obvious growth of sincere sympathy for communism among working men belonging to these parties, it would be undesirable ...
... in order to be able to exercise their influence on the broadest masses of the workers, to expose their opportunist leaders from a higher tribune, that ...
... these organisations, to establish closer contacts with them and the masses that sympathise with them, and to explain to them in a friendly spirit - ...
... In 1919 a split took place in the Socialist Party. The party's Left wing broke away, bccoming the initiator and nucleus of the Communist Party of ...
... a Letter from the German Independent Social-Democratic Party (see present edition, Vol. 30, pp. 337-44). ? ?[p.198] ? [68] The Turin section ...
... Ministers have been arrested, and that M. Kerensky is a fugitive. In a proclamation to the Arrny Committees they state that authority of Government ...
... A Caricature of BolshevismThe revolution, and the introduction of a planned economy, laid the basis for the transformation of Russia from the 'India' ...