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>>10066054
>the whole disagreement comes from the best means to achieve it.

>Lenin’s essay about the partisan concerns the tactics of the socialist civil war and takes aim at the attitude, widespread among social democrats of the period, that the proletarian revolution would be achieved as a mass movement in parliamentary countries, so that methods of direct use of violence would then be obsolete. For Lenin, the partisan war belongs to the realm of the methods of civil war and is concerned, like all others, with a purely tactical or strategic question relating to the concrete situation. Partisan war is, as Lenin says, “an unavoidable form of combat,” one to be employed without dogmatism or preconceived principles just like other means and methods—legal or illegal, peaceful or violent, regular or irregular—depending on the particular situation. The purpose is the communist revolution in all countries of the world; whatever serves this purpose [55] is good and just. Thus, the partisan problem too can be very easily solved pursuant to this line. Partisans directed by the central communist authority become freedom fighters and venerable heroes. Partisans whose activity deviates from this authority become lumpen rabble and enemies of mankind.

this actually sounds pretty kewl guess im a leninist now