Lenin on Bourgeois Subversion of Goals

Lenin on Bourgeois Subversion of Goals

The bourgeois intellectuals in the West… naturally shift the weight of emphasis from questions of state structure to questions of local self‑government. Let the petty bourgeoisie hasten to "build themselves a nest" in the "peaceful municipalities"… The task of the proletariat is to organise the masses not for this purpose, but for the revolutionary struggle, for complete democratisation today and a socialist revolution tomorrow.

Vladimir Lenin, The Agrarian Programme of Social‑Democracy in the Russian Revolution. Autoabstract.