What Is to Be Done?

Main Ideas

• The necessity of creating a professional revolutionary party to lead the workers' movement.
• Criticism of economism and spontaneity in the workers' movement, with an emphasis on conscious political struggle.
• The role of theory in the revolutionary movement, the necessity of Marxist ideology.
• The creation of an underground network of professional revolutionaries to prepare for revolution.
• The importance of propaganda and agitation in forming the class consciousness of workers.
• Criticism of opportunism and reformism, with an emphasis on revolutionary methods of struggle.
• The necessity of uniting various social-democratic organizations under a single leadership.