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What Is To Be Done? - V.I. Lenin
Red Menace
Lenin's Defamation of Marxism
"This is Lenin in full bloom. Using literary devices expertly to explain precisely what is happening, and once again defending Marxism against those who wish to vulgarize it," he writes. He points out that the ruling class in Zarist Russia heavily censors any revolutionary material but curiously they let three editions of Bernstein's book be translated and published into Russian. In a way not unsimilar to how, in our own time, the CIA helped translate and spread post-Marxist French theory as a way to help these anti-Marxist ideas flourish on the left.
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