The examination of the Leninist point of view on the acquisition of revolutionary consciousness by the proletariat is interesting for two reasons : 1. Lenin is disqualified as a Marxist author ; 2. The class content of Leninism is revealed.
Lenin’s theory is nothing but a quasi-integral restatement of Kautsky’s positions. The class content of Leninism is limpid : it is the political doctrine of the layers of declassed bourgeois intellectuals posing as the self-proclaimed leadership of (...)