1. On his return to St. Petersburg in April 1917, Lenin advanced what history calls his April Theses. This included

 

b. his call for the establishment of a Soviet government that would begin to establish a socialist society.

 

 

 

2. Lenin’s thesis maintained that World War I was “on Russia’s part a predatory imperialist war owing to the capitalist nature of that government.” Today, the Trump administration’s imperialist policies can be seen in

 

a. U.S. economic war against China.

 

b. the deportation of undocumented immigrants and U.S. citizens to concentration camps in El Salvador.

 

c. the intensification of its attempts to overthrow the governments of Cuba, Nicaragua, and Venezuela.

 

d. All of the above

 

 

 

3. Lenin’s call for a revolutionary Soviet worker’s state establishing socialism was motivated by his belief that

 

c. Russia was passing from the first stage of the revolution to its second stage, in which power must be placed in the hands of the working class and poor peasants,and that the Soviets formed the basis for the only possible revolutionary government.

 

 

 

4. Lenin said the immediate task was not to “introduce” socialism, but only to “bring social production and the distribution of products” under working class control. Similarly, efforts in China today to build socialism in a different context includes

 

b. development of the productive forces through a “socialist market economy” under the leadership of the Communist Party, involving both public and private capital, with the public sector remaining dominant.

 

 

 

5. In his first great work, What is to be Done, Lenin established what would become the model for all Communist parties after the Soviet revolution in order to organize, educate, and coordinate the struggles of the working class. In his April thesis, Lenin called on the party to

 

c. convene a party Congress to change its name (to the Communist Party) and to update its attitude towards the state and amend its minimum program.

 

 

6. Conditions in 1917 Russia led Lenin to conclude the time was ripe for the transition to a government run by workers and peasants and that no support should be given to the Provisional Government. These conditions included “a maximum of legally recognised rights, … absence of violence towards the masses” and the latter’s “unreasoning trust in the government of capitalists.” In today’s U.S., Communists should participate in May Day actions as a venue for

 

d. helping to build mass, united, labor-led resistance against the Trump agenda, while calling for a ceasefire and self-determination in Gaza and Ukraine, moving money away from the military budget toward people’s needs, taxing the rich, guaranteeing the right to unionize, a pathway to citizenship, expansive voting reforms, free college and childcare, the right to housing, and other anti-monopoly demands.

 

 

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