Third in a series around the anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) in 1924 Franco Venturi (in his book Roots of Revolution) quotes a police report on the state of things in the St Petersburg working class after the impact of the populists (Narodniks. “The gross, vulgar methods employed by factory employers are becoming intolerable to the workers. They have obviously realised that a factory is not conceivable without their labour. Without workers [the employers] can do nothing.
Second in a series around the anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) in 1924. In the first instalment of this series (Solidarity 697) I traced in broad outline the populist revolutionary environment in and from which Russian Marxism emerged.
Second in a series around the anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ulyanov (Lenin) in 1924. In the first instalment of this series (Solidarity 697) I traced in broad outline the populist revolutionary environment in and from which Russian Marxism emerged.
Given the recent marking of the centenary of Lenin’s death, Lars T Lih looks at what his ‘intricate polemic’ in What is to Be Done? might offer today’s left.