Lenin’s Views on Relationship between Politics and Economics

In his article ”Once again on trade unions, the current situation and the mistakes of Trotsky and Bukharin”, Lenin makes a formulation on the relationship between politics and economics. He says: ”Politics must take precedence over economics. To argue otherwise is to forget the ABC of Marxism” (”Selected Works of Lenin”, Vol 4, p 441).
In a previous period, particularly in the 10 years of turmoil, this statement of Lenin’s was always being quoted by some people in a one-sided manner, and was used as the theoretical basis for dealing with the relationship between politics and economics. In their eyes, a Marxist-Leninist must give priority to politics at any time, any place and under any circumstances. This is absolutely a misinterpretation resulting from garbled quotations. Read more