Lenin on the Labor Aristocracy

Lenin on the Labor Aristocracy

Present-day (twentieth-century) imperialism has given a few advanced countries an exceptionally privileged position, which, everywhere in the Second International, has produced a certain type of traitor, opportunist, and social-chauvinist leaders, who champion the interests of their own craft, their own section of the labour aristocracy.

Vladimir Lenin, “Left-Wing” Communism: an Infantile Disorder