The April Theses pdf

Vladimir Lenin: Russian politician and writer, leader of the Bolshevik Revolution, founder of the Soviet Communist Party, and proponent of the Leninist political doctrine that many countries followed in the twentieth century. His full name is "Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov", and his nickname is "Lenin" after the Siberian river "Lina". He was born in the Russian city of Simbirsk in 1870, to a father who works as a teacher and a mother who is a highly educated housewife, who was keen to spread the spirit of revolution in her five children. He showed ingenuity in school and special diligence, his father died at the age of sixteen, and his older brother was executed for attempted murder of Caesar. In the same year, Lenin obtained high school with distinction and then joined Kazan University, but was expelled from it for leading a movement to demand freedom within the university. After that, he succeeded in affiliation to Petersburg University on the condition that he only attend exams, from which he obtained a Bachelor of Laws in 1891 AD. “Lenin” practiced law immediately upon his graduation, and during that period he deepened his reading of Karl Marx, until he joined a Marxist group in Petersburg that he later led, then he met active Marxists in France, Germany and Switzerland, to be arrested after returning to Russia for a year under investigation, and then exiled to Siberia. Lenin spent his period of exile writing books, and the most important book he wrote there was: The Development of Capitalism in Russia. After the First World War, Lenin was accused of working for the Germans, but he managed to escape to Poland, and there he wrote his book “State and Revolution.” Then he called on the central body of the party to carry out a revolution. Russia is under their control, Lenin was elected Speaker of the People's Assembly, ended the war with Germany and abolished the individual monarchy. In addition to his political activity, “Lenin” was a philosopher and writer, and he authored up to forty-five books, which influenced important political figures after him, such as “Stalin” and “Guevara”. Lenin was shot in 1922, causing a stroke that killed him in 1924. His body was embalmed and buried on Red Square in Moscow, where tourists from his fans around the world go to his grave.

The April Theses pdf by Vladimir Lenin

A new beautiful edition of the Communist Manifesto, combined with Lenin’s key revolutionary tract
It was the 1917 Russian Revolution that transformed the scale of The Communist Manifesto, making it the key text for socialists everywhere. On the centenary of this upheaval, this volume pairs Marx and Engels’s most famous work with Lenin’s own revolutionary manifesto, “The April Theses,” which lifts politics from the level of everyday banalities to become an art-form.
The Communist Manifesto
“Oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.”
The Communist Manifesto is the most influential political text ever written—few other calls to action have stirred and changed the world. Now, in the wake of a punishing financial crisis, in a world built on regimes of permanent austerity, each rife with horrific disparities in wealth, this short book remains a reference point for those trying to understand the transformations being wrought by capitalism and its concomitant forms of exploitation.
This centenary edition includes a new introduction by Tariq Ali, contextualizing the period—the eve of the 1848 revolutions—in which Marx and Engels penned their masterpiece and argues that it desperately needs a successor.
“The April Theses”
“The chain breaks first at its weakest link.”
In Lenin’s “April Theses,” written in 1917, he presented his ten analytical maxims, outlining a programme to accelerate and complete the revolution that had begun in February of that year. Now, on the revolution’s centenary, Verso presents them here alongside Lenin’s ‘Letters from Afar’, written in exile that March and addressed to his comrades in Petrograd. In these missives, he offers advice and instruction to comrades pushing ahead with their ideals in the aftermath of the February revolution.
The introduction by Tariq Ali traces The Communist Manifesto’s influence on Lenin’s “April Theses,” the text that brought the manifesto to life and made it one of the most widely read books in history. For Lenin, writes Ali, it was the birth of imperialism, the legitimate offspring of capitalism, that signalled the end of the latter’s “progressive capacities.”