Yep, the best part of Lenin's work is that he was restricted from using any non-official sources (eg. Tsarist propaganda and banking magazines were okay, but socialist political theory wasn't) so he had to formulate and prove all his theories using like Banking weekly and shit. He acknowledges this in the version of Imperialism released after the October revolution and even jokes about how certain names and countries make no sense because he had to get his work past the censors (I believe in Imperialism, he switched Russia and Japan?).
The fact that he was still able to write one of the most convincing and poignant pieces of political theory in the 20th century under those conditions is wild.
Yep, the best part of Lenin's work is that he was restricted from using any non-official sources (eg. Tsarist propaganda and banking magazines were okay, but socialist political theory wasn't) so he had to formulate and prove all his theories using like Banking weekly and shit. He acknowledges this in the version of Imperialism released after the October revolution and even jokes about how certain names and countries make no sense because he had to get his work past the censors (I believe in Imperialism, he switched Russia and Japan?).
The fact that he was still able to write one of the most convincing and poignant pieces of political theory in the 20th century under those conditions is wild.