![]() ![]() It was due to this opportunism that Kautsky and the parties did not endorse revolutionary socialist tactics and programs, instead favoring Eduard Bernstein's reformism. ![]() Stalin opens his second lecture, on methods, with a reference to the period of the Second International in which Karl Kautsky and other orthodox Marxists adopted "opportunistic" ( revisionist) principles to preserve unity in the social-democratic parties. The lecture builds on Lenin's writings about the nature of imperialism, particularly 1917's Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism. These factors, associated with imperialism, increase the contradictions already present in capitalist countries. The contradiction between ruling nations and colonial (dependent) nations and peoples.The contradiction between financial groups and imperialist nations.The contradiction between labor and capital.He lists three contradictions which imperialism brings to capitalism: According to Stalin, Leninism is a product of imperialism and a guiding ideology of the Bolsheviks. He focused his first lecture on the issue of the historical roots of Leninism as a form of Marxism. Stalin's nine lectures covered the historical roots of Leninism, methods, theory, the dictatorship of the proletariat, the peasant question, the national question, strategy and tactics (two lectures), and style of work. ![]()
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