V. I. Lenin
Collected Works, vol. 21, p. 250.

"The Collapse of the Second International"

"Opportunism--to speak on a European scale--was 
in its adolescent stage, as it were, before the 
war.  With the outbreak of the war it grew to 
manhood and its "innocence" and youth cannot be 
restored.  An entire social stratum, consisting of 
parliamentarians, journalists, labour officials, 
privileged office personnel, and certain strata of 
the proletariat, has sprung up and has become
<I> amalgamated </I> with its own national bourgeoisie, which has 
proved fully capable of appreciating and 
"adapting" it." 

[MC5 comments: Here is yet another quote from Lenin
proving that it is wrong to talk about his works apart
from World War I, "Imperialism: The Highest Stage
of Capitalism" and the Russian Revolution
and subsequent Comintern experience. Yet, most opposing
MIM's line continuously point to "What Is To Be Done?"
as if Russia's 1902 class structure applied to imperialist
countries today! In such a situation, these sleazy opportunists
trying to smuggle the labor aristocracy into our movement
say that all that is needed is a strong leadership to
combat economism and various forms of "false consciousness."]