tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10970428.post2552128591747618988..comments2024-03-27T08:00:05.698+00:00Comments on ResoluteReader: V.I. Lenin - The Proletarian Revolution and the Renegade KautskyResolute Readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05543167556221747469noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10970428.post-13187873043841098452014-01-10T04:01:12.590+00:002014-01-10T04:01:12.590+00:00I find Lenin so easy to understand, I don't kn...I find Lenin so easy to understand, I don't know that having some knowledge of the Bolshevik Revolution, made it any easier, in my case at least. How hard is it for anyone of any background to understand the following quote from Engels in the same book?<br /><br />Have these gentlemen” (the anti-authoritarians) “ever seen a revolution? A revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing frank56https://www.blogger.com/profile/11381980539610728103noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10970428.post-8218940126242154362011-10-05T17:58:58.460+00:002011-10-05T17:58:58.460+00:00Thanks for the comment Bert. Not sure that Lenin d...Thanks for the comment Bert. Not sure that Lenin didn't address the strongest nations like Germany. He wass emphatic, time and again, before and after the October Revolution, that without a revolution in the industralised west, the Russian revolution would be doomed.<br /><br />He did see Russia as a weak link in the capitalist chain, and concentrated on it, because he was a Russian Resolute Readerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05543167556221747469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10970428.post-74404088933595550752011-10-05T10:26:04.072+00:002011-10-05T10:26:04.072+00:00Thanks for the post, did not know that people actu...Thanks for the post, did not know that people actually read these books anymore. I actually was wondering is this not also about different ways to restructure capitalism: radically (Lenin) or incrementally (Kautsky). Furthermore, the basic idea of Lenin was that he addressed the "weakest" link in the capitalist chain (Russia in terms of economic development) and not the strongest Berthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10394159909828858732noreply@blogger.com