Marxist-Leninist Theory | "The Valuable Admissions Of Pitirim Sorokin" by LENIN (20 Nov 1918) @marxist-leninisttheory8023 | Uploaded June 2017 | Updated October 2024, 12 hours ago.
"The Valuable Admissions Of Pitirim Sorokin"
by LENIN (20 Nov 1918)

Written: 20 November, 1918
First Published: 21 November 1918, Pravda No. 252
Source: Lenin’s Collected Works, Progress Publishers, Moscow, Volume 28, 1974, pages 185-194

marxistsfr.org/archive/lenin/works/1918/nov/20.htm

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Lenin talks about the case of Pitirim Sorokin, a moderate socialist. Pitirim Sorokin was a person who had for long opposed the Bolsheviks from a right-wing position but now chose to collaborate with them.

Lenin wrote that this represented the split of the petit-bourgeois middle-class moderates into two groups:

1) Anti-bolshevik hardliners willing to collaborate with capitalists & monarchists.

2) Pro-bolshevik moderates willing to co-operate with the Soviet government against capitalism.