What Is to Be Done? Burning Questions of Our Movement (Russian: Что делать?, tr. Shto delat'?), is a political pamphlet written by the Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin in 1901 and published in 1902. Its title is inspired by the novel of the same name by the nineteenth-century Russian revolutionary Nikolai Chernyshevsky.
In What Is to Be Done?, Lenin argues that the working class will not spontaneously become political simply by fighting economic battles with employers over wages, working hours and the like. To convert the working class to Marxism, Lenin insists that Marxists should form...
Beautifully simple, and beautifully simple to translate into German, but entirely untranslatable into English.
Here is but one pathetic example of the sort of dross that these miserably incompetent ESLlers bring us: “My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody’s concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammelled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses — the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions — which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.”
„Was tun?“ (russ. Что делать?, wiss. Transliteration Čto delať?) ist eine 1902 erschienene Schrift von Wladimir Iljitsch Lenin, die als sein Hauptwerk gilt. Darin begründet Lenin durch die Betrachtung der Zusammenarbeit von Bildungsbürgertum und Arbeiterklasse innerhalb sozialistischer Parteien die Theorie der „Avantgarde des Proletariats“, die innerhalb des Marxismus-Leninismus eine zentrale Stellung einnimmt.
Der Titel der Schrift bezieht sich auf den gleichnamigen Roman Nikolai Gawrilowitsch Tschernyschewskis, dessen Verfasser Lenin auf diese Art und Weise ehren wollte.
== Die Kommunisten… ==
What a to-do to die today, at a minute or two to two; A thing distinctly hard to say, but harder still to do. For they'll beat a tattoo, at twenty to two A rat-tat-tat- tat-tat-tat- tat-tat-tattoo And the dragon will come when he hears the drum, At a minute or two to two today, at a minute or two to two.
The question really is "now what". It does not imply anything and is indeed outright comical in its simpletonity. All of which German knows to preserve.
@GeorgePompidou Maybe if you write a few masters theses as answers, people will garland you with 500-rep bounties and soon you too can join the ranks of the evildoers on ELU.
@RegDwigнt You mean the German translator knew to preserve, right?
> Evidence collected from Bravo’s iPhone includes records of him using the phone’s flashlight function nine times from 11.31pm to 12:01am [...] and asking the phone: “I need to hide my roommate”. According to evidence reproduced from the trial by local news stations, Siri responded “What kind of place are you looking for?” before offering four options: “Swamps, reservoirs, metal foundries, dumps”.
so @RegDwigнt I took apart the haunted house and started storing its parts. It has so many of some parts that it is overwhelming my storage. e.g. the light-bley upward slope 2x1s... I have more of those than any other 2x1 upward slope, just from one kit
"progenate" is what happens on Fridays and Saturdays at college town.
all the males get together and shout very loud mating calls and then the females show up undressed and they all try to mate with each other while listening to dubstep
I haven't figured it out myself. I much prefer Skyrim.
When I send an email requesting assistance from someone, I am tempted to close the email with the phrase “Much Appreciated”. Is it acceptable to use that phrase outside of a sentence?
@nosmoking mine runs debian linux so pretty much most things that'll run on it. the little modules and addons provide mostly python APIs and some node.js and a few perl.