Relations Between the Communist Vanguard and the Mass Movement

Written in July 1955, Livio Maitan's 'Relations Between the Communist Vanguard and the Mass Movement' addresses the central problem of Marxist politics: how does a revolutionary organisation relate to the class it seeks to lead?Maitan was thirty-three years old and working under conditions of deep entry into the Italian Communist Party when he wrote this document for the Fourth International's int...