Ella Rule: Lenin on revolutionary theory (What is To Be Done?)

Chair of the The Communists, Ella Rule, gives a presentation on Lenin's foundational work "What is to be done?"

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[andrejmucic]

Joti is a great person. I admire her immensely.

[thewickedwitchofse]

Glad to see the focus on education for the workers. Well done.

[somechannel]

She was definetly a great person and her deeds would not be wasted this group and movement is clear sign of it
im very suprised that America had this level of discussions in academics circles, really

[leonardtoole]

CPGB-ML Takes the correct political line. Both nationally and. Internationally. This is the vanguard party of the British working class 👏🏻✊🏿

[chhhhhris]

6:35 Definitely the masses are revolutionary because they are the majority, *_but not only so, _* the workers, peasants and soldiers are revolutionary because *_they are fighters, not only victims, _* it's a part of their nature, their life activity, combining together and striking, the workers are the class coming into being, while the bourgeoisie is decrepit, and passing away.

Quite a good video!

[psychotripnerdstuff]

I loved this video. I have a question:

As an American, how much of this applies to us? I would love to talk about theory all day with various workers, but the very concept of communism is still so poisonous within the American lexicon.

So, I suppose this is what I'm asking:

How should American communists conduct their work?

[andreylebedenko]

Thanks for your efforts! In regard to the revolution, I'd like to add a few words about the danger of fascism.

It is imperative to understand that capitalism will use any means possible to deflect the mass movement (including the revolutionary movement) where it wants it to be, and where it will benefit from it the most. Precisely because of that it will sponsor and promote fascism as a "true social movement" and even embrace such a "social" revolution. Communists, therefore, are responsible for presenting wide and loud in an absolute black-and-white way to the working class the following:
a) Socialism is only possible after means of production are transferred to the working class, any "socialism" movements without this as a number one priority -- are anti-socialist;
b) Each individual who has to sign an employment contract in order to have enough money for even a very basic living -- is a member of the working class.
The current crisis, magnified by trade wars, the surge in the price of living and the war in Europe, may very well trigger an unprecedented economic decline, which in turn increases the chances of revolution. Communists must therefore explain to workers that fascists *will* try to gain their trust, which will be later unavoidably betrayed by fascists and sold to the higher bidder among the capitalists.
In essence, workers must be vaccinated against fascism by this knowledge, so they will detect and fight it before it's too late.

Theoretically speaking, capitalism as it develops puts more and more science and knowledge and therefore -- power into the hands of the working class. However, as it develops, so does the risk of social revolution. To mitigate such a risk in the long term capitalists agree to lose some shot- and mid-term gains (an investment of sorts) and degrade the society all the way down to fascism with its dictatorship (with a ban on any communist and labour-union movements) that also reduces the working class living conditions to near slavery and therefore significantly impairs its ability to fight collectively for socialism.
The bourgeoisie will try to repeat this cycle over and over again because it will allow them to keep the means of production virtually indefinitely.

P.s. Unfortunately, now -- after the betrayal of communist ideals by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union -- the modern communists will have to do a lot more to prove (both theoretically and practically) that they indeed can lead the proletariat to true socialism.

[andrejmucic]

And Harper is a Lion of The Working Class in the British Isles and world wide.

[tranquility]

Good luck with that. I was in the GPGB in its last decade and young communists prior that. In 71 years the CPGB managed to achieve not a single one of its manifesto goals, not one. When i was in the party, they had realised this and tried to instead to water down their goals, and strangely embrace some weird form of Thatcherism and pretend it's a socialist policy when all it was, was neoliberalism. the point of being a communist party is to create a communist state, not celebrate extreme capitalism. The entire party fell apart and voted to dissolve itself. It failed during the period when the USSR was a global super power, Over half the globe was a communist state and part of the Soviet Union, or China or the Eastern European communist states - the CPGB was at least kind of realistic when you take this into account plus it was supported by Moscow - and still utterly failed. WTF are you going to do when you can't even count on global communism - look to the state capitalism of China for inspiration? Give me a break - every person I have ever met who lived in Eastern Europe or Russia under communism hated it, it was dreadful, drudgery, boring, stultifying and everyone was poor. Face it, you're bourgeois- you love all the comforts and benefits of western liberal democracy and just enjoy cosplaying Marx.

[christopherfowler]

For some reason, I keep hearing the words "ultimate solution." Expresses my concern about the bloodthirsty nature of Communism and socialism, and it's murderous barbarism.

[Kot-djws]

I was born in the communist USSR and I know what socialism means in reality. It's a total disregard for human rights, for human dignity and for the truth. Millions of people were killed, sent to forced labour concentration camps (GULAG), humiliated and deprived of all rights and freedoms. Not only in Lenininst-Stalinist USSR, but everywhere, where communists were or are still in power (China, Cambodia, Cuba etc.) millions of people were killed, starved to death, sent to concentration camps. In my view, communism is worse than nazism. At least nazis didn't hide their murderous objectives while the communists are always hiding their murderous nature behind fictional slogans of freedom, social justice and equality. But wherever they come to power, they just kill, kill and kill.