The Communist Manifesto the April Theses by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels & V. I. Lenin

Author:Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels & V. I. Lenin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Verso Books

The ideas of Marx and revolutionary France never left him, despite the civil war and accompanied setbacks that lay ahead, and he returned to them as he lay paralysed for the last two years of his life.

London

May 2016

The Tasks of the Proletariat

in the Present Revolution

(‘The April Theses’)

V. I. Lenin

I did not arrive in Petrograd until the night of 3 April, and therefore at the meeting on 4 April I could, of course, deliver the report on the tasks of the revolutionary proletariat only on my own behalf, and with reservations as to insufficient preparation.1

The only thing I could do to make things easier for myself—and for honest opponents—was to prepare the theses in writing. I read them out, and gave the text to Comrade Tsereteli. I read them twice very slowly: first at a meeting of Bolsheviks and then at a meeting of both Bolsheviks and Mensheviks. I publish these personal theses of mine with only the briefest explanatory notes, which were developed in far greater detail in the report.

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