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what distinguishes us from the anarchists

We need revolutionary government, we need (for a certain transitional period) a state. This is what distinguishes us from the anarchists. The difference between the revolutionary Marxists and the anarchists is not only that the former stand for centralized, large-scale communist production, whi…

—p.75 The April Theses The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution ('The April Theses') (1) by V. I. Lenin
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trade-unionism was addicted to the status quo

[...] Trade-unionism, by its very nature, was addicted to the status quo. Its dialectic of partial conquests--if we ask for more we might lose what we have already won--made it a defensive, conservative and insufficient force. [...]

—p.viii Introduction to the April Theses (iii) by Tariq Ali
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Jacobin

Lenin [...] had insisted the only credible goal was to turn the imperialist war into a civil war. The enemy was at home. Another manifestation of Jacobin voluntarism, his opponents had mocked.

—p.vii Introduction to the April Theses (iii) by Tariq Ali
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