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Luxemburg versus Lenin
Mattick, Paul
http://www.connexions.org/CxArchive/MIA/mattick-paul/1935/luxemburg-lenin.htmhttp://www.marxists.org/archive/mattick-paul/1935/luxemburg-lenin.htm Year Published: 1935 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX8037 On many essential points the conceptions of Luxemburg differ from those of Lenin as day from night, or -- the same thing -- as the problems of the bourgeois revolution from those of the proletarian. Abstract: Though Luxemburg and Lenin had set themselves the same task the revolutionary revival of the labour movement sunk in the swamps of reformism, and the overthrow of capitalist society on a world-wide scale - still in their striving toward this goal their ways diverged; and although they always retained respect for each other, they nevertheless remained at odds on decisive questions of revolutionary tactics and on many questions of revolutionary principle. On many essential points the conceptions of Luxemburg differ from those of Lenin as day from night, or - the same thing - as the problems of the bourgeois revolution from those of the proletarian. The thing that united Luxemburg and Lenin was their common struggle against the reformism of pre-war time and the chauvinism of the Social Democracy during the war. But this struggle was at the same time accompanied by the dispute between the two regarding the road which leads to revolution; and since tactic is inseparable from principle, by a dispute regarding the content and form of the new labour movement. Subject Headings |