ABSTRACT
It was now that Lenin disinterred Marx's and Engels' masterly ideas on strategy and tactics, ideas which the opportunists of the Second International had buried out of sight. Leninist strategy and tactics are the science of the leadership of the revolutionary proletarian struggle. Strategy is the determination of the direction of the main proletarian onslaught in this or that phase of the revolution; the elaboration of the best plan for the distribution of the revolutionary forces, and the endeavour to carry out this plan during the whole period of this or that phase of the revolution. Tactic is the determination of the line to be taken by the proletariat during a comparatively short period of the ebb or flow of the movement, of advance or retreat of the revolution. Tactical leadership is a part of strategical leadership, subordinated to the tasks and needs of the latter.
