We'll be studying Lenin's What Is To Be Done? in the context of Lars Lih's commentary in Lenin Rediscovered.

Zoomlink each Thursday 8pm: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81679399952?pwd=WW9lRzF1M1l4VVVsWTZVOFdyTS84dz09

Study guide: click here to download as .docx, and here to download as pdf

Schedule:

Session 1: Models and adversaries

Reading: Extracts – German SPD model, Bernstein’s revisionism and Russian socialism before WITBD

Session 2: Revolutionary theory and the class struggle

Reading: Preface and Chapter I

Session 3: Spontaneity and consciousness

Reading: Chapter II

Session 4: Propaganda and agitation

Reading: Chapter III

Session 5: Professional revolutionaries

Reading: Chapter IV

Session 6: Newspapers and party building

Reading: Chapter V and Conclusion.

Session 7: What was done with WITBD

Reading: Extracts – Lenin, Martynov, Plekhanov, Trotsky, Zinoviev, Gramsci, Shachtman, Stalin, Wolfe, DraperBackground:

Review by Paul Hampton of Lenin Rediscovered

Notes from Brisbane Workers' Liberty study group on Lenin Rediscovered

Timeline used by Brisbane study group

Review by Paul Hampton of Lenin

Interview with Lars Lih

The Bolsheviks as they really were, by Pierre Broué

Propaganda and agitation: what they mean. Excerpts from AWL publications, and Plekhanov's classic discussion

Zoomlink each Thursday:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81679399952?pwd=WW9lRzF1M1l4VVVsWTZVOFdyTS84dz09

Meeting ID: 816 7939 9952

Passcode: 695850

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