Lenin and the Bolsheviks Carried the Day

Lenin was, not some people's will, vanguardist who disdained the revolutionary potential of everybody but a select few. And if you ever hear somebody who happens to be doing a podcast about the french revolution tell you about gracchus babuf and say that lenin was a vanguardist, well tell that guy that he was wrong on virtually all fronts. At the congress in london, lenin and the bolsheviks carried the day because, as i said, most of the tionality groups were with them. The one big exception to this is what we talked about last week. Because everybody at the congress seemed eager to condemn and get away from the mere criminality