A Popular Essay in Marxian Strategy and Tactics
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The main problem I have with this text is Lenin's seeming inability to consider the positions of his (and Bolsheviks') opponets from their point of view; he completely disregards the Dutch and German critiques and their anti-parliamentism and acts like the (very uniqe, at least in Europe) conditions which Russia found itself in can be “transplanted” onto much more developed countries like Germany. Parliamentary politics played a radically different role in Germany than they did in Russia because they arose out of different circumstances. Also, history has proven that his position on Britain “support the Labour party so that people might become more favourable towards Communists” has been proven false throughout history, which isn't Lenin's fault, but it is alarming how many people treat this text as sacred scripture in the 21st century.