Communist University: Vulgarisation of Marxism

[Communist]

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D4UK2kWf5ik/SqZ2HRLVUWI/AAAAAAAABXE/FQEb-y1Mz9w/s400/LeninState%26Revolution.jpg (http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_D4UK2kWf5ik/SqZ2HRLVUWI/AAAAAAAABXE/FQEb-y1Mz9w/s1600-h/LeninState%26Revolution.jpg) [CU for Wednesday, 9 September 2009]


Lenin at this stage of his writing life (1917) is using the term “Opportunist” to describe the Social Democrats, reformists or gradualists who had nearly all voted to take part in the Imperialist world war.


Click on this link:

State & Revolution, Chapter 6, Vulgarisation of Marxism by Opportunists, Lenin (http://amadlandawonye.wikispaces.com/1917,+Lenin,+State+and+Revolution+C6,+Vulgarisatio n+of+Marxism+by+Opportunists) (6061 words)

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Henk Sneevliet (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henk_Sneevliet), Dutch communist leader
http://www.inghist.nl/Onderzoek/Projecten/BWN/lemmata/bwn3/images/SNEEVLIET.jpg (http://www.marxists.org/archive/sneevliet/index.htm)
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[chegitz guevara]

My study group just finished reading that, although Chapter 6 is really kind of pointless for people who don't know the history, which would include nearly everyone else in my study group, as they are all new commies.

[Communist]

I believe if the so-called Communist University is followed it would make sense...
I receive these in the email and post them here because I've received good responses from them, but as I've said before I don't endorse whatever they might say; I don't even read them all. But their series on "No Woman, No Revolution" was very good if too short.

[ComradeOm]

My study group just finished reading that, although Chapter 6 is really kind of pointless for people who don't know the history, which would include nearly everyone else in my study group, as they are all new commies.Well it has to be kept in mind that Lenin was very much writing with a contemporary audience in mind. The controversies and figures he mentioned are obviously of less interest today (although their arguments often live on). If you've any questions then feel free to post them in the Learning or History forum and I'm sure that people will be able to help out because there are some fairly relevant/interesting points in that chapter

[chegitz guevara]

Thank you for the offer, ComradeOm, but I do happen to know my history, and thus the context in which Lenin wrote that chapter. :)

I was just pointing out that for those who don't know the history, who these people were, that Chapter 6 makes very little sense. Everyone else in the study group I'm leading was like, "huh?"