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I am enjoying this immensely. I have always struggled to understand how to move forward in a political movement and this helps strategize

“We cannot confine ourselves solely to exposing the system that stands in (the working-class’) path of development. We must also react to the immediate and cur­rent interests of the proletariat. We, however, work and shall continue to work for the cause of the working class in close organic contact with the proletarian struggle” good point Martyov.

Yes, our movement is indeed in its infancy, and in order that it may grow up faster, it must become imbued with intolerance against those who retard its growth by their subservience to spontaneity.

“Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement. This idea cannot be insisted upon too strongly at a time when the fashionable preaching of opportunism goes hand in hand with an infatuation for the narrowest forms of practical activity.” Lenin was spitting!

"[Social Democrats] deprived the socialists of this opportunity and demoralised the socialist consciousness by vulgarising Marxism, by...blunting of social contradictions, by declaring the idea of the social revolution and of the dictatorship of the proletariat to be absurd, by reducing...class struggle to narrow trade-unionism and to a “realistic“ struggle for petty, gradual reforms.”

“In a country ruled by an autocracy, with a completely enslaved press, in a period of desperate political reaction in which even the tiniest outgrowth of political discontent and protest is persecuted, the theory of revolutionary Marxism suddenly forces its way into the censored literature and, though expounded in Aesopian language, is understood by all the ”interested“.

"'Freedom' is a grand word, but under the banner of freedom for the industry the most
predatory wars were waged, under the banner of freedom of labor, the working people were robbed...Those who are really convinced that they have made progress in science would not demand freedom for the new views to continue side by side with the old, but the
substitution of the new views for the old."