My visit to the Kremlin
" . . . in the spring of 1908, Lenin wrote an article entitled “Marxism and Revisionism” in which he made it plain that the enemy was not only philosophical idealism and “neo-Humeian, neo-Berkeleyan revisionism” but also political syndicalism.
“Even that ‘revisionism of the left,’ which has appeared now in the Latin countries as ‘revolutionary syndicalism,’ is also attracted to Marxism, ‘correcting’ it; Labriola in Italy and Lagardelle in France label themselves in Marx’s ranks, falsely interpreting what Marx really meant.”35 The key to attacking Bogdanov, however, was not to confront the syndicalist politics he shared with so many other Bolsheviks, but to criticize his philosophy . . "
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