What Is to Be Done?

In "What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement," political pamphlet by Vladimir Lenin, the author argues that the working class requires more than just workplace struggles to achieve political awareness. He advocates for the formation of a dedicated political party to disseminate Marxist ideas among workers. This manifesto played a crucial role in the division of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party into the Bolsheviks and Mensheviks, as Lenin critiques the tendency of the working class to develop only a "trade-union consciousness."