Lenin's Freedom of Criticism

In this context, freedom of criticism within ostensibly socialist organizations and indeed within the socialist movement across Europe becomes nothing more than a Trojan horse through which liberalism infiltrates. Lenin highlights this by putting forth a wonderful and rather funny analogy. He is arguing against this new explosion of opportunists stumbling over one another to present bourgeois critiques of Marxism as if they were proletarian critiques. This is not only naive or disingenuous, but it strips the socialist movement of its theoretical coherency,. Its core values, its methodological approach to understanding the world, and then replaces it all with the same old liberal nonsense presented as new and exciting theory.