[lbo-talk] Kautsky : OWS and "experience of revolution"

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OWS reminds of this from Lenin in the PostScript to _The State and
Revolution_ (where he critiques Kautsky extensively for , not as I
said supporting, but for a position of abstention on War credits (
"shamefaced" ?) as Angelus said (smiles).

"It is more pleasant and useful to go through the "experience of
revolution" than to write about it."

Vladimir Lenin's
The State and Revolution
PostScript

PostScript to the First Edition

This pamphlet was written in August and September 1917. I had already
drawn up the plan for the next, the seventh chapter, "The Experience
of the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917". Apart from the title,
however, I had no time to write a single line of the chapter; I was
"interrupted" by a political crisis--the eve of the October revolution
of 1917. Such an "interruption" can only be welcomed; but the writing
of the second part of this pamphlet ("The Experience of the Russian
Revolutions of 1905 and 1917") will probably have to be put off for a
long time. It is more pleasant and useful to go through the
"experience of revolution" than to write about it.

The Author

Petrograd
November 30, 1917