Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution

Vladimir Lenin lies in a tomb in Moscow's Red Square. History has not been kind to this Russian leader, his teachings reviled by modern mainstream politics. But in today's capitalist society, riven by class inequality and imperialist wars, perhaps it is worth returning to this communist icon's demand for "Peace, Land and Bread", and his radical understanding of democracy.



Lenin was wrestling with the question of "what is to be done?" when facing the catastrophes of his own time. Against the ...