Paul Le Blanc is the author of Lenin and the Revolutionary Party (Haymarket, 2015), Unfinished Leninism: The Rise and Return of a Revolutionary Doctrine (Haymarket Books, 2014), and A Freedom Budget for All Americans: Recapturing the Promise of the Civil Rights Movement in the Struggle for Economic Justice Today (Monthly Review Press, 2013, with Michael Yates). His new book on the Russian Revolution, October Song, is forthcoming from Haymarket Books.