[lbo-talk] Query

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Nov 13 13:26:38 PST 2010


lbo83235:
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> Collected Works, vol 31, discussion of Kommunismus. Fourth paragraph here:
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> http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/jun/12.htm

"Is it permissible to disregard and to gloss over the experience of the Bolsheviks, who, in April and May 1917, pursued what was in fact a policy of compromise, when they declared that the Provisional Government (Lvov, Milyukov, Kerensky and the rest) could not be overthrown at once, since in the Soviets, they still had the backing of the workers and it was first of all necessary to bring about a change in views in the majority, or a considerable part, of those workers?"

That Lenin, such a softie!

Doug



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