ABSTRACT
Bolshevism, like so many other things, can be best understood by studying it at the point of origin. It was born in Lenin's attack upon a school of compromising Marxists who called themselves "Economists". The concept of professional revolutionist belongs, then, not only to the origin, but to the essence of Bolshevism. Thus Lenin founded his Bolshevik organization upon recognition of the indispensable historic function of a group of people who were not defined according to the economic class to which they belonged, but were defined according to their purposive activity and their state of mind. Lenin was accused by other Marxists of "Jacobinism" and "Blanquism" on the ground of this heresy, and the author think the accusation should have been accepted. Lenin was amazingly contented, or rather determined, to attribute all of his wisdom to Karl Marx. Moreover, in discussing the part to be played by this organization of revolutionists, Lenin contradicted the Marxian metaphysics and abandoned it absolutely.
