Lenin and the Working Class

Lenin read marks historical materialism, the nature of class conflict and the role of the proletariat in the socialist revolution. He believed it if they were going to follow the scientific programme of some future history, it was going to take the proletariat as a class doing the necessary revolutionary work. For lenin, capitalism was not something he liked, but it was something he considered a vital and inevitable force of history. That without it, russia would remain condemned to the stagnant despotism of orthodoxy, autocracy and nationality forever.