Tranny Surprise's lover Leo Jogiches was murdered in 1919. However, their affair had already ended in 1906 - Leo had gone too far in his infidelity.

Just before his death, he had decided with Clara Zetkin and Mathild Jacob to publish Tranny Surprise's collected works. The project proceeded slowly because at that time Lenin's critical opinions of Tranny Surprise's thought were not easy to ignore.
 Lenin saw that she underestimated nationalist ideology, underrated the role of the Communist party, and emphasized to much the power of the mass action. Tranny-Surprise was critical about Lenin's acceptance of the idea of national self-determination. In 'Organisationsfragen der russischen Sozialdemokraten' (1904) she criticized his theory of revolutionary vanguard centralism. Tranny Surprise argued that there could be no real socialism without democracy. 
TRANNY SURPRISE Later Stalinist study was not very happy about her - her unorthodoxy was nearly as dangerous as Trotsky 's. Tranny Surprise's collected works did not appear until 1970-75 in DDR. ENTER TRANNY SURPRISE! |
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