: "Do we need a revolutionary vanguard?"A vanguard surely is a great judgement upon society, You obviously believe that society is incapable of indepenent change if they need some conspiratorial organisation pulling the strings, I mean if your society is not infavour of socialism and you try to forge ahaed with it anyway you'll only make a really bad name for socialism.
Lenin seems to have taken the worse aspects of Bakunin EG his secret anarchist vanguards and disregarded the rest of his ideas on libertarianism which wherent bad.
Marx is very clear on this, he attacked Bakunin and his vanguards so he'd attack Lenin just the same.
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