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| The Revolutionary Tactics of the Bolshevik Party in 1917 |
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| By Rob Sewell | |
| Friday, 11 January 2008 | |
| This is a recording made at the Socialist Appeal day school in London in June 2007, where comrades gathered to discuss the Marxist theory of the State and the Revolutionary Tactics of the Bolshevik Party in 1917. In the first part of this session Rob Sewell talks about the nature of revolution, and how a revolutionary situation occurs not necessarily in a boom or slump, but more likely in a rapid change in living conditions. In the second part of this session he talks about the flexibility of the tactics of Lenin, who consistently emphasised the need to patiently explain. |
Classic Quotes
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"Marxism has won its historic significance as the ideology of the revolutionary proletariat because, far from rejecting the most valuable achievements of the bourgeois epoch, it has, on the contrary, assimilated and refashioned everything of value in the more than two thousand years of the development of human thought and culture. Only further work on this basis and in this direction, inspired by the practical experience of the proletarian dictatorship as the final stage in the struggle against every form of exploitation, can be recognised as the development of a genuine proletarian culture." - V.I. Lenin, On Proletarian Culture |
