A Rebels Guide to Lenin
Dave | 18.01.2011 18:22
Lenin for the 21st Century?
7.30pm @ Hamilton House (top floor), 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3QY
Speaker: Jonny Jones (Deputy Editor of International Socialism Journal)
Recent years have witnessed a renewal of interest in Lenin's ideas and political practice. Even more than Marx, he remains a highly controversial figure, very widely demonised as a sort of prefiguration of Stalin's bureacratic nightmare.
Yet his attempt to rigorously give practical political expression to the idea that the 'truth is concrete'; his philosophy of the 'actuality of the revolution'; his championship of the revolutionary oranisation as acting as a 'tribune of the oppressed'; and his key role in the strategic and tactical twists and turns of the 1917 Russian Revolution, at the very least deserve careful study as we move into a period of awesome new political challenges thrown up by the anti-cuts mobilisation.
Come along and join in the discussion.
Organised by North Bristol SWP.
7.30pm @ Hamilton House (top floor), 80 Stokes Croft, Bristol, BS1 3QY
Speaker: Jonny Jones (Deputy Editor of International Socialism Journal)
Recent years have witnessed a renewal of interest in Lenin's ideas and political practice. Even more than Marx, he remains a highly controversial figure, very widely demonised as a sort of prefiguration of Stalin's bureacratic nightmare.
Yet his attempt to rigorously give practical political expression to the idea that the 'truth is concrete'; his philosophy of the 'actuality of the revolution'; his championship of the revolutionary oranisation as acting as a 'tribune of the oppressed'; and his key role in the strategic and tactical twists and turns of the 1917 Russian Revolution, at the very least deserve careful study as we move into a period of awesome new political challenges thrown up by the anti-cuts mobilisation.
Come along and join in the discussion.
Organised by North Bristol SWP.
Dave
Original article on IMC Bristol:
http://bristol.indymedia.org/article/702914