What Is to Be Done? [Burning Questions of Our Movement]

Lenin's influential pamphlet emphasizes the necessity of a dedicated political party to guide the working class towards Marxism, arguing that economic struggles alone won't lead to political awareness. He proposes the formation of a "vanguard" of revolutionaries to educate workers on Marxist principles. This work played a critical role in the division of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party, leading to the emergence of the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, and is considered a cornerstone of Leninist ideology.