Great write-up, comrade! There are many similarities to the Social-Democrats of 120 years ago and the modern Socialists of our day. Lenin was so often correct in his assessments that we’d be fools not to learn from him—the movement of their time—and what we can do in ours today. We truly are at such a low point that it’d be a shame to aim too low rather than too high! A vanguard of professional revolutionaries must be formed at the forefront of the movement with all the backing and support necessary to keep the organization secure, politically motivated, and sustainable in its efforts of educating, agitating, propagandizing, and ultimately converting the sub-classes of the oppressive capitalist system into professional Socialists!
Thank you! Lenin’s understanding of the function of the professional revolutionary, and the vanguard as a whole, is one of the reasons I wanted to write on it. So many people today hear these terms and think that Marxist-Leninists (and Maoists) are solely arguing for a bureaucratic elite at the top controlling everything — which is so far from what Lenin argues for and sets up materially later.
He actually argues for the opposite, a professional group of revolutionaries who take the task of revolution as seriously as one would a job. At the end of the day that is all Lenin argues for; revolutionaries who take it seriously!
Great write-up, comrade! There are many similarities to the Social-Democrats of 120 years ago and the modern Socialists of our day. Lenin was so often correct in his assessments that we’d be fools not to learn from him—the movement of their time—and what we can do in ours today. We truly are at such a low point that it’d be a shame to aim too low rather than too high! A vanguard of professional revolutionaries must be formed at the forefront of the movement with all the backing and support necessary to keep the organization secure, politically motivated, and sustainable in its efforts of educating, agitating, propagandizing, and ultimately converting the sub-classes of the oppressive capitalist system into professional Socialists!
Thank you! Lenin’s understanding of the function of the professional revolutionary, and the vanguard as a whole, is one of the reasons I wanted to write on it. So many people today hear these terms and think that Marxist-Leninists (and Maoists) are solely arguing for a bureaucratic elite at the top controlling everything — which is so far from what Lenin argues for and sets up materially later.
He actually argues for the opposite, a professional group of revolutionaries who take the task of revolution as seriously as one would a job. At the end of the day that is all Lenin argues for; revolutionaries who take it seriously!