Lenin's Critique of Plekhanov's Dogmatism and Its Contemporary Implication
As a pioneer of Russian Marxism and labor movement activist,Plekhanov deeply criticized dogmatism and gained fame in Russia,but he dramatically shifted towards dogmatism on the major issue of the path of Russian revolution in his later years.He denounced Lenin's April Theses as a crazy attempt to spread anarchist chaos,criticized Lenin for relying on the work-ing people with low consciousness to carry out the revolution,and criticized Lenin for being blindly optimistic about the victory of the socialist revolution.Lenin strongly criticized Plekhanov with Marxist historical dialectics,pointed out that Russian socialist revolution had certain economic conditions,emphasized that there was not only one method for carrying out socialist revolution,and affirmed that the revolution had favorable class conditions.Lenin's criticism of Plekhanov's dogmatism reflects scientific atti-tude towards Marxism of upholding fundamental principles and breaking new ground,scientific Marxist revolutionary dialectics,and fearless spirit of Marxism.The adherence to these fine traditions has important theoretical significance and practical values for us to build modern Chinese civilization and advance Chinese modernization.
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