"With all you're getting, get understanding". -Forbes
http://www.politicalscienceview.com/lenins-theory-of-the-party/
I've been bothered for a long time about the HUGE gap between Marx's definition and explication of "Communism" vs what we see polluting humanity all around the world for more than a century now.
And, especially over the last 5 years, I've been really worried about what, exactly, to make of "Wokeism"; the "Democratic" Party, which clearly loathed actual democracy; and how that seemed integrated with European "democracy"; Western governments everywhere; the WEF; and the CCP.
I think I am a lot closer to understanding now.
From the link:
"Lenin’s Theory of The Party. This question of the organization of the party was the subject of Lenin’s first important theoretical work, a pamphlet entitled What is to be done? which he published in 1902...He was quite aware, and his opponents were aware, that a party such as he described (radical, violent, hard-core like a trade union) ... ran counter to accepted principles of Marxism.
No passage from Marx had been quoted more frequently than the famous sentence, The emancipation of the working class is the work of the working class itself.
This sentence summed up the practical meaning of economic materialism, that the relations of production create the characteristic revolutionary ideology of the proletariat and that this ideology is the mainspring of an effective social revolution. It was upon this principle that Marxists had always distinguished their own scientific socialism from utopian ism, and the inevitable revolution from the made revolutions of idealists and adventurers.
The social revolution simply cannot be made by force or exhortation to run ahead of the underlying industrial development upon which a proletarian mentality depends. Knowing all this, Lenin was quite aware that his conception of party organization was logically untenable without a corresponding change in the Marxian theory of ideology.
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