The Liquidators and the Decisions of the Lettish Marxists | |
Auhtor: Vladimir Ilyich Lenin | |
| Language: english Published: 1900 Genres:political, revolutionary, social historyDownloads: 192 eBook size: 255Kb Review by A. Dent, June 2010 Rating: (*****) Copyright: Public Domain in the U.S. Please check the copyright status in your country. | |
Summary of the Book 'The Liquidators and the Decisions of the Lettish Marxists':
A Marxist movement had developed in Russia during the last decade of the nineteenth century. It was a response to the rapid growth of industry cities and the proletariat (a group of lower-class workers especially in industry). Its first intellectual spokesmen were people who had turned away from relying on the peasants (rural poor people) of the Russian villages and countryside and they placed their hopes on the proletariat. They aimed for a revolution that would transform Russia into a democratic republic. Lenins writings and work focused on the role of the proletariat as promoters of this revolution. However he also stressed the role of intellectuals (people engaged in thinking) who would provide the movement with the theories that would guide the revolutions progress.
Lenin expressed these ideas in his important book Whats to Be Done? in 1902. When the leaders of Russian Marxism gathered for the first important party meeting in 1903 these ideas clashed with the idea of a looser more democratic workers party that was promoted by Lenins old friend Iuli Martov (18731923). This disagreement over the nature and organization of the party was complicated by many other conflicts and from its first important gathering Russian Marxism split into two factions (opposing groups). The one led by Lenin called itself the majority faction (bolsheviki or the Bolsheviks) while the other took the name of minority faction (mensheviki or the Mensheviks). The Bolsheviks and Mensheviks disagreed not only over how to organize the movement but also over most other political problems.
In 1905 an uprising now known as the Revolution of 1905 occurred in Russia. Widespread revolt against the Russian czars government spread throughout the country but was eventually put to an end by the government. This revolt among the Russian people surprised all Russian revolutionary leaders including the Bolsheviks. Lenin managed to return to Russia only in November when the defeat of the revolution was practically certain. But he was among the last to give up.
Excerpts from the Book 'The Liquidators and the Decisions of the Lettish Marxists':
... from the Russian by Bernard Isaacs and Joe Fineberg Edited by Julius Katzer Public Domain: Lenin Internet Archive (2000). You may freely copy, ...
... the liquidators raised when, in a special issue of our newspaper, we acquainted the reader with the latest decisions of the Lettish Marxists and remarked ...
... liquidationist August bloc.[*] ? ? The liquidators have used every means in their power to challenge this conclusion. All the resourcefulness of ...
... of events. ? ? Mr. Weiss is a most vigorous opponent of ours. He heaps harsh criticism on the Russian Leninists and the Lettish majority. However, ...
... and the Split in the Social-Democratic Group in the Duma. - DJR] ? ? ** A Russian proverb. -Ed. ? but he nevertheless commands respect for ...
... . . with the 'Lenin circle'. ? ? The Fourth Congress of the Lettish Marxists is an attempt to revert to the old . . . Bolshevik ideology. ? ...
... that it was we who correctly presented the facts in the first instance. ? ? To what lengths the liquidators sometimes go in their striving to ...
... their refusal to have the non-Social-Democrat Jagiello admitted to the Social-Democratic group. This decision is most unpalatable to the liquidators. ...
... not want to put the motion to the vote, does not want ? either to reject or adopt it. In such cases it calls the next business. The question of amalgamation ...
... and circle habits of thought have apparently reached their uttermost limit. (F. Dan's Report, p. 45.) ? ? F. Dan used this strong language because ...
... will help the liquidators. The Marxist line has been endorsed by life itself. Events in the Lettish Social-Democratic movement confirm this no less ...
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