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What Is To Be Done? - V.I. Lenin

Red Menace

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Lenin's Vision of Revolutionary Leaders

Lenin argued that great revolutionaries are degraded to the level of an amateur among amateurs. In Occupy for example, one could walk into a meeting and a freshman at the local college who's never organized a day in his life would have just as much say on how the movement should proceed as a 40-year-old veteran organizer with decades of experience. The worker agitator, who is at all gifted and promising, must not be left to work 11 hours a day in a factory. We must arrange that he be maintained by the party, that he may go underground in good time," Lenin said.

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