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"One Step Forward, Two Steps Back" by LENIN (Feb-May 1904 )
Written in February-May 1904
Published in Geneva, May 1904
Source: Lenin works, Vol 7, pp. 203-425.
marxistsfr.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/onestep/index.htm
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Lenin devoted several months to the writing of One Step Forward Two Steps Back (The Crisis in Our Party), making a careful study of the minutes and resolutions of the Second Party Congress, of the speeches of each of the delegates and the political groupings at the Congress, and of the Central Committee and Party Council documents.
The book evoked fury among the Mensheviks. Plekhanov demanded that the Central Committee disavow it.
"One Step Forward, Two Steps Back" by LENIN (Feb-May 1904 )
Written in February-May 1904
Published in Geneva, May 1904
Source: Lenin works, Vol 7, pp. 203-425.
marxistsfr.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/onestep/index.htm
______________________________________________
Lenin devoted several months to the writing of One Step Forward Two Steps Back (The Crisis in Our Party), making a careful study of the minutes and resolutions of the Second Party Congress, of the speeches of each of the delegates and the political groupings at the Congress, and of the Central Committee and Party Council documents.
The book evoked fury among the Mensheviks. Plekhanov demanded that the Central Committee disavow it.
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The Immediate Tasks of the Soviet Government by Lenin (April 28, 1918) Audiobook.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/mar/x03.htm
Lenin describes the immediate tasks of the Soviet government in 1918.
-The capitalists were more or less defeated militarily, so the task would be to create a proletarian democratic state machinery, get workers in control of administration and economic management.
-Lenin stressed the importance of organization, labor discipline to resist against chaos and individualist actions.
-Lenin also stressed development of productive forces, to make Russia an industrial country. For this task also, organization, planning, proletarian discipline would be needed.
-Lenin explained that since there were no proletarian scientists, no proletarian managers etc. it was necessary to use capitalist experts and learn from them, until the workers could learn and replace them.
-It should be mentioned that when Lenin mentions dictators he means leaders elected by Soviets. These are individual leaders who managed key production facilities, and had complete power as work place team-leaders, but were elected, could be re-called and had no power outside of the work place.
-Lenin defends proletarian democracy and mocks those who criticize it. He says that while mass meetings of workers might seem chaotic, it is the first step in the workers learning eventually to manage their own state, their own economy.
-Later the Soviet state would have to return to military struggle because of the invasion of the foreign imperialist countries in Russia (1918-20)
Lenins Pamphlet is an illustrative combination of democracy and discipline, their constant evolution, analysis of various real life challenges in building a proletarian state.
For Lenin, democracy and dictatorship are not dead metaphysical concepts but real, living, scientific truths. His clear class-based analysis explains that weakness in the proletarian dictatorship means chaos and individualism. On the other hand, discipline carried through proletarian democracy is what makes democracy and economic construction possible.
Petit-bourgeois anarchy, chaos and individualism which fights against the proletarian dictatorship, is not really defending any kind of freedom, but is only causing economic ruin and gnaws at the proletarian democracy itself.")
