apr 17, 1917 - April Thesis (The Tasks of the Proletariat) - Lenin

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Speech given by Lenin after returning to Petrograd post-exile. Discusses how WWI needs to end and for the end of capitalism (a firm break from moderate socialism AKA Mensheviks). An assault on the cooperation between the provisional government and Petrograd soviet, favoring the nation-wide representation of Soviets ("All power to the Soviets"), seeing the provisional government as Russia's "bourgeois moment".