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Lenin, What Is To Be Done? (1902) |
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The Party
would stand at the head of the movement, forming the “vanguard of
the proletariat” |
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It would assume an active and decisive role in shaping the working
class itself
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It would spearhead the proletarian revolution |
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It would operate as a monolithic and militant underground
organization of professional revolutionaries |
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Following the Bolshevik takeover, the party quickly ceased to be a
political party in any conventional sense of the word |
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Communist Party evolved into an administrative, military and
industrial machine, a mechanism to rule society |
