What Is to Be Done

@inproceedings{LeninWhatIT,
  title={What Is to Be Done},
  author={Vladimir Ilʹich Lenin},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:275688298}
}
The history of all countries shows that the working class, exclusively by its own effort, is able to develop only trade union consciousness, i.e., it may itself realize the necessity for combining in unions, for fighting against the employers and for striving to compel the government to pass necessary labor legislation, etc. The theory of socialism, however, grew out of the philosophic, historical and economic theories that were elaborated by the educated representatives of the propertied… 
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