1a. If you've ever had to listen to a bunch of armchair socialists, you'd swear they only read the Marxist classics to memorize quotes. It's particularly un-useful. Anyway, Danny Rubin has collected an entire book of useful quotes: Rubin, Danny, "Marx, Engels, Lenin For a Better World: Excerpts from the Classics." Chelsea Fund for Education, New York, 2004. Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
1b. RIGHT! One has to admire Lenin's understanding of his time and place, but we have to analyze our own if we want to be as good a strategist as he was! Skip to the next question
1c. Is the United States today like Russia in 1917? Should effective activists just copy others? Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
1d. Let's leave personal motivations to the psychologists. We're interested in liberating humanity. Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
2a. RIGHT! Lenin made it clear that more death and starvation would result from continued capitalist rule. Skip to the next question
2b. If it were just "Workers versus capitalists," then the same strategies would apply in virtually every situation. But we know that change is occurring constantly. That means, among other things, that our strategies and tactics have to keep changing, too.Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
2c. Are all crises alike? Are all situations alike, or do we have to correctly analyze changing situations in order to come up with the best tactics? Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
2d. "Try harder" is what the capitalists tell us every time they screw up. It's not what Lenin recommended. Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
3a. Lenin wasn't one to carp and cry. Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
3b. The Tsar of Russia had already been overthrown when this pamphlet was written. Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
3c. Lenin wasn't fond of imperialist nations, but he was intent on solutions, not blame. Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
3d. RIGHT! People who should have been helping were, instead, joining the capitalist government. Skip to the next question
4a. RIGHT! Capitalism was preventing a solution to the crisis. Skip to the next question
4b. You could actually argue that Lenin did want better bureaucrats, but that wasn't the essence of his recommendations. Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
4c. More dedication by soldiers at the front and by civilians at home is what the capitalists were demanding, not Lenin. Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
4d. Those in power always ask for a sense of cooperation throughout the nation, by all peoples and all classes. They hope that we don't know anything about the class struggle. Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
5a. Materialists know to look out for words like "always," "never," and "absolutely." Idealists use such words often, but they live in an imaginary world. Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
5b. RIGHT! If you read down to the bottom of the essay, you'll see that Lenin made some statements about changes in other countries that did not pan out. Thanks for working this little educational model. Your feedback would help us continue to improve the on-line Little School.
5c. The Russian revolution, a month after Lenin wrote this pamphlet, was pretty important. Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer
5d. Lenin was a man of decisive action! "Moderation" doesn't fit him well, not did it fit the crisis situation he was writing about. Please look over the essay, or just pick another answer