Elites, Masses, and Rebels reads to me as a Leninist position against the spontaneity of revolution. The takeaway is emphatically not that education is unnecessary, but the opposite: the spontaneous understanding by proletarians of their own exploitation has limits and is easily co-opted by counter-revolutionary forces. A vanguard is essential in these conditions to counter the organized propaganda of the bourgeois.
This is a re-hashing of the section on spontaneity in What Is To Be Done
Elites, Masses, and Rebels reads to me as a Leninist position against the spontaneity of revolution. The takeaway is emphatically not that education is unnecessary, but the opposite: the spontaneous understanding by proletarians of their own exploitation has limits and is easily co-opted by counter-revolutionary forces. A vanguard is essential in these conditions to counter the organized propaganda of the bourgeois.
This is a re-hashing of the section on spontaneity in What Is To Be Done