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A classic work by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin on the role of the vanguard party in the socialist movement. Written in 1901-1902, it criticizes economism, spontaneity and trade-unionism, and defends the need for a centralized and disciplined organization.
- Trade-Unionist Politics And Social-Democratic Politics
III Trade-Unionist Politics And Social-Democratic Politics....
- The Spontaneity of The Masses and The Consciousness of The Social-Democrats
The vehicle of science is not the proletariat, but the...
- The Primitiveness of The Economists and The Organization of The Revolutionaries
IV The Primitiveness of the Economists and the Organization...
- Preface
Notes. See present volume [5], pp. 13–24.—Ed.. See present...
- Conclusion
Notes. I could also reply with the German proverb: Den Sack...
- Freedom of Criticism
Notes. Note: This footnote has been moved into the body of...
- Appendix
Appendix The Attempt to Unite Iskra With Rabocheye Dyelo. It...
- Correction
The Initiators’ Group of whom I speak in the pamphlet What...
- Trade-Unionist Politics And Social-Democratic Politics
What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement [a] is a political pamphlet written by Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin (credited as N. Lenin) in 1901 and published in 1902, a development of a "skeleton plan" laid out in an article first published in early 1901.
- Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin
- 1902
What is to be Done? Vladimir Lenin First published: 1902 Transcription by: Tim Delaney This printable edition produced by: Chris Russell for the Marxists Internet Archive Please note: The text may make reference to page numbers within this document. These page numbers were maintained during the transcription process to remain faithful to the
Lenin’s work What Is To Be Done? was wrien at the end of 1901 and early in 1902. In “ Where To Begin”, published in Iskra , No. 4 (May 1901), Lenin said tha t the arcle represented “a skeleton plan to be developed in greater detail in a pamphlet now in preparaon for print ”. Lenin began the actual wring of the book in the autumn of 1901.
In his What Is To Be Done? (1902), Lenin totally rejected the standpoint that the proletariat was being driven spontaneously to revolutionary Socialism by capitalism and that the party’s role should be to merely coordinate the struggle of the proletariat’s diverse sections on a national and international… Read More. revolutionary literature.
N. G. Chernyshevsky's What Is to Be Done?, a book few Western readers have ever heard of and fewer still have read. Yet no work in modern literature, with the possible exception of Uncle Tom's Cabin, can compete with What Is to Be Done? in its effect on human lives and its power to make history.
In Lenin's 1902 treatise What is to Be Done? he argues that a strictly controlled party of dedicated revolutionaries is a basic necessity for a revolution.
