I myself do not really view “What is to be Done?” as a great beginner work for Marxists, since it mentions a lot of obscure philosophers or groups that a modern audience (with their cursory knowledge of Russian history being from the lips of liberals, or worse, conservatives) would hardly know the context of, and I am reading a version that has notes on these people!
That is not to say that it is not an influential or essential work of Lenin (I think it might be up there with “Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism” and “The State and Revolution” in terms of either factor), but one has to be willing to trudge through Russian names that you will likely never hear again.
That only counts for capitalist countried though. The reason they are all bastards is because they protect capital. Chinese cops for example are comrades and the NKVD are too
Edit: I originally had a comment saying how the police in China were called something different in Chinese compared to the Chinese term for police in other countries, but I am not sure if that is true after trying to look into it.
Deepseek also told me that the terms are the same. At most, they say “x-country police” and “people’s police” according to deepseek
Sorry for the mistake
Nah, no worries 🤗
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