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Lenin’s tactical lesson: no formula, only concrete analysis Reading Left-Wing Communism: An Infantile Disorder has been a real gift. Again and again, Lenin drives home that the Bolsheviks’ distinction was not abstract militancy, but their ability to determine which tactics matched the concrete relationship between party, class and enemy at each moment of the struggle. That judgement was not simply the product of Lenin’s genius, formidable though he was. It was formed collectively through more than a decade of revolution, defeat and reaction; legal and illegal work; parliamentary participation and boycott; imperialist war and, finally, two revolutions in 1917. The Bolsheviks learned through struggle—including through their mistakes and defeats. This is neither the cult of individual genius nor mechanical “stageism”. History does not automatically assign the correct tactic to each stage. Every conjuncture must be analysed anew: where are the masses moving, which illusions are breaking down, which institutions retain authority, and what tactics can win the working class while preserving revolutionary independence? The enduring lesson is not simply “be flexible”. It is to build an organisation capable of learning from the masses, correcting itself without dissolving itself, and subordinating every tactical turn to the conquest of working-class political power. Tactical suppleness and strategic intransigence belong together.