ABSTRACT
In 1902, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin issued his short clarion call, “What is to be Done?” It was a call to revolution against tsarist Russia by a highly-disciplined, small elite: the Bolsheviks. The result was eventually Soviet Russia, communist rule in that country for about seventy years (much of it under Stalin), and then its downfall, bringing Marxist-Leninism into disrepute. Today such utopian visions are no longer in fashion. Instead, more soberly and staying closer to the ground, we must ask what are the possibilities and promises of our situation as it really is. 1
