Lenin's theory of political organisation | Elaine Graham-Leigh | Counterforum 19 June

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Counterforum looks at the role of two leading Marxist revolutionaries,

Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik Party and the architect of the Russian revolution. He remains the foremost Marxist theorist of political organisation.

Georg Lukacs is the greatest Marxist philosopher since Marx. But he was also an active revolutionary - a commissar in the Hungarian Workers Republic of 1919.

Together the writings of Lenin and Lukacs are a unique inheritance for activists today.

This session reviews Lenin's theory of political organisation, still one of the most controversial practical applications of Marxist theory to the reality of class struggle.

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[garethmdawson]

The capitalism not only puts the working class against each other but also the capitalist class against each other, where everyone exploits everyone else for profit

But the free market system not only drives competition between labor also between investors/owners improving efficiency

[judomagyar]

there is a lot of echo that makes it difficult to understand what you are saying.

Here is a joke I heard in Hungary in the 70's:

Was Lenin more of a politician or was he more of a scientist?

He had to be a politician because real scientists don't experiment on people.