The meaning of political party for the Left Chris Cutrone Originally published in Weekly Worker 1064 (June 25, 2015). [PDF] Tamás Krausz’s recent book Reconstructing Lenin (2015) notes the foundational opposition by Lenin to ‘petty bourgeois democracy’ – Lenin’s hostility towards the Mensheviks was in their opportunistic adaptation to petty bourgeois democracy, their liquidation of … Continue reading Proletarian dictatorship and state capitalism