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Marxism-Leninism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Lenin himself never used the term "Leninism," nor did he refer to his views as "Marxism-Leninism." However, his ideas diverged from classical Marxist theory on several important points (see the articles on Marxism and Leninism for more information). After Lenin's death, his ideology and contributions to Marxist theory were termed "Marxism-Leninism," or sometimes only "Leninism." Marxism-Leninism soon became the official name for the ideology of the Comintern and of communist parties around the world. Trotskyists in particular believe that Stalinism contradicted authentic Marxism and Leninism, and they intitially used the term "Bolshevik-Leninism" to describe their own ideology of anti-Stalinist and anti-Maoist communism. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Marxism-Leninism   (632 words)

Leninism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leninism is a political and economic theory which builds upon Marxism, the most prominent form of communism, and is a branch in its own right. The term Leninism came into widespread use only after Lenin's stroke ended his active participation in the Soviet goverment: Zinoviev popularised the term at the fifth congress of the Communist International. Lenin's dictatorship of proletariat was based on predominant representation of industrial workers in government institutions, although the country was mostly agrarian. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leninism   (525 words)

The New Leninism, by Chad Nagle Lenin understood something fundamental about humans, or at least most humans, and that is that they want to "belong." Those with a desire to "belong" can be relied upon to command others to build the new order, the others being outside history and reliable swallowers of whatever is put in front of their faces. Lenin said that imperialism was the "highest stage of capitalism," a Marxist euphemism for "give ‘em enough rope," and Lenin predicted that America — poorly designed for imperialism— would embark on imperialism anyway, and stagger inexorably toward the same grave all empires before it had fallen into. Lenin was not a democrat, but he was not a dictator either, unlike his crude successor Stalin. www.antiwar.com /nagle/nagle-col.html   (3035 words)

Long Live Marxism-Leninism-Maoism! (RIM) Lenin said, "Only he is a Marxist who extends the recognition of the class struggle to the recognition of the dictatorship of the proletariat." In the light of the invaluable lessons and advances achieved through the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution led by Mao Tsetung, this dividing line has been further sharpened. Most importantly, Lenin raised the theory and practice of proletarian revolution to a whole new level as he led the proletariat in seizing and consolidating its political power, its revolutionary dictatorship, for the first time with the victory of the October Revolution in formerly Tsarist Russia in 1917. Lenin described the era in which we live as the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution. www.csrp.org /rim/longlivemlm.htm   (2938 words)

Socialism: Theory and Practice - Leninism In truth, Leninism was probably meant only to be a real world application of Marxist ideas to the environment of Russia, but it has created its own school of thinking. Lenin, as leader of the Communist Party, advocated the ‘liquidation’ of the bourgeois class, as well as those people that stood in the way of the fulfillment of his Marxist dreams. Though Lenin was quick to denounce those that sought to bend Marxist views to their personal perspective, he didn’t hesitate to adopt Marx’s ideas for his own purposes and inject his own views. www.the-wood.org /socialism/leninism.htm   (589 words)

Again on the Essence of Leninism The question of the essence of Leninism is not a random one and it appears it is raised as a result of the continuous attempts to revise the teachings of Marxism-Leninism. 289.) The Trotskyist Zinoviev defined Leninism this way: "Leninism is Marxism of the era of imperialist wars and of the world revolution which began directly in a country where the peasant predominates." Based on his own definition of Leninism, Zinoviev considered that the main question is the role of the peasantry. To confine Marxism to the theory of the class struggle means curtailing Marxism, distorting it, reducing it to something acceptable to the bourgeoisie. www.mltranslations.org /Russia/leninmcd.htm   (1306 words)

Marxism-Leninism. The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition. 2002 Eventually, according to Marxism-Leninism, the rigid governmental structures that have characterized the former Soviet Union and other Marxist nations will not be necessary; the “withering away of the state” will occur. Lenin also argued that capitalist nations resort to aggressive imperialist moves as they decline and that Marxist nations must therefore be prepared for war. Unlike some Marxists, however, Lenin stressed bold, revolutionary action and insisted that a strong Communist party would be needed in a Marxist nation to direct the efforts of the workers. www.bartleby.com /59/13/marxismlenin.html   (235 words)

Revolution in the Air - Comments By "Classical Marxism" I mean Marxist theory as it evolved during the first half of the last century under the influence of such revolutionary leaders as Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, and Mao, in reaction to the concrete political situations they were immersed in. This then suggests that it may be impossible for (former) adherents of Classical Marxism to contribute to the project called for by Max (and others), for although they have rejected major things wrong with Classical Marxism, they remain trapped in that problematic. This is done in the following series of points, in which "CM" refers Classical Marxism. www.revolutionintheair.com /comments/jette.html   (1921 words)

The Contribution of J.V. Stalin to Marxism-Leninism Lenin and Stalin raised high the banner of militant Marxism in the party, gave an all-sided substantiation and developed the genius view of Marx and Engels on the irreconcilable struggle between proletarian and bourgeois ideology, as a law of class struggle. In his article "The National Question and Leninism" (1929) and in the Political Report to the XVI Congress of the Party (1930) J.V. Stalin put forward new and most important positions about bourgeois nations and socialist nations. Lenin substantiated and proved that the national question is a part of the general question of the proletarian revolution, of the question of the dictatorship of the proletariat. www.revolutionarydemocracy.org /rdv4n1/stalin70.htm   (8240 words)

Glossary of Terms: Ma While Lenin considered himself only a Marxist, after his death his theory and practice was given the label of Marxism-Leninism, considered to be an overall evolution of Marxism in the "era of the proletarian revolution". Marxism is the theory of dialectical materialism based on communist practice. To be more exact, Leninism is the theory and tactics of the proletarian revolution in general, the theory and tactics of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular." Stalin explained that Leninism first began in 1903, and was identical to Bolshevism. www.marxists.org /glossary/terms/m/a.htm   (6821 words)

Youth for International Socialism Trotskyism, or those who follow Leon Trotsky (who led the opposition to Stalin's reactionary policies after Lenin's death in 1924) is actually a continuation of Marxism/Leninism, but many people use the word Trotskyism to distinguish themselves from the Stalinists. Leninism is really nothing more than the extension of Marx's ideas into the age of imperialism (the age of the domination of finance capital and monopolies, and the total subjugation of the colonial world to the will of the major powers). Stalin and Mao were NOT Marxists, they were actually quite anti-Marxist in that they led regimes based not on democratic control of the state by the workers, but rather based on totalitarian control by an elite stratum of bureaucrats who were a parasite on the workers' state. www.newyouth.com /archives/theory/faq/what_are_marxism_leninism_trotskyism.asp   (226 words)

Marxism-Leninism and Under the pretext that in the era of imperialism native aristocratic or bourgeois classes prefer alliance with imperialist forces to a revolutionary change, Lenin develops the principle that intellectuals, going beyond their normal role as bureaucrats, technicians, researchers, educators, and critics, should also become political leaders. To the perceived deadlock of third-world countries, itself due to the absence of a revolutionary bourgeoisie, Lenin proposes the theory of revolutionary intellectuals as a substitute. I call elitism the association of knowledge with power as a result of which politics shifts from administration to the undivided tutorship of few educated natives in line with the civilizing mission of colonialism. www.addistribune.com /Archives/2001/10/19-10-01/Marxism.htm   (3692 words)

Reflection26 Leninist-Stalinist Marxism expressly justified, at least to a certain extent, the curious epistemology of this apparently impossible phenomenon--sincere mendaciousness. Lenin was the creator of totalitarian doctrine and of the totalitarian state in embryo. None the less, Lenin's political opportunism was to some extent restrained by doctrinal considerations; whereas in Stalin's day, from the early thirties onwards, doctrine was absolutely subordinated to the purpose of legitimizing and glorifying the Soviet government and everything it did. www.csam.montclair.edu /~kowalski/html_docs/an/m30_reflection26.html   (1078 words)

Communism and Counterrevolution Leninism is a consistent development of the internal logic of Marxism, adapting it for practical use. Lenin's theoretical achievement was to elevate human consciousness to a plane where it was capable of formulating goals other than those which, according to the Marxist paradigm, economic conditions impose, and where it could act consciously to create the conditions for the revolutionary transformation of social reality. Lenin's conception of the revolutionary party was his attempt to create a revolutionary force which would act on the basis of its own consciousness to fulfill a revolutionary program on behalf of all of society. www.newdemocracyworld.org /Revolution/WCCTW-Ch8.htm   (2862 words)

CPUSA Online - On Criticisms From The "Left" Lenin began using the concept of the democratic struggle to characterize the nature of the overall process in 1897 and especially by the Revolution of 1905, all the way to the February 1917 Revolution,alongside emphasizing the role of the working class and the class struggle. Lenin defined the role of the Party as that of guiding (or "leading", according to translation) the class struggle of the working class, the ultimate objective of which is taking power to construct socialism. In Two Tactics 1905, Lenin defined the democratic stage as the stage they were in that lasted until the February Revolution of 1917, when the stage changed to that of seeking working class revolution, the power of the working class in alliance with the poor peasantry to construct socialism. www.cpusa.org /article/articleview/647/1/121   (6107 words)

PCP: On Marxism-Leninism-Maoism Not to recognize Maoism's character as an "ism" is to deny that it is universally applicable and, consequently, its character as the third, newest and highest stage of the ideology of the international proletariat: Marxism- Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, which we uphold, defend and apply. Further, we should keep in mind that when Comrade Stalin rightfully and correctly stated that we had entered the stage of Leninism in the development of Marxism, there was also opposition, and those who opposed it also did so in the name of defending Marxism. Marxism is made up of three component parts: Marxist philosophy, Marxist political economy and scientific socialism. www.csrp.org /pcp-mlm.htm   (2454 words)

RevolutionaryLeft.com -> Marxism-Leninism VS. Trotskysm Lenin and all of the bolsheviks were for the unity of the party structure and that is why the majority of the party, which was presented by the Bolsheviks, voted against Trotsky's suggestion. The harshness of Lenin’s language in these polemics was dictated by the fact that, under the guise of “Trotskyism”, he was really attacking conciliatory tendencies in the leadership of his own faction. And Lenin himself admitted that he was right. www.revolutionaryleft.com /index.php?showtopic=5841   (6819 words)

TKP/ML: "Contemporary Marxism-Leninism-Maoism" (1998) While Leninism is the Marxism of the era of imperialism and proletarian revolutions, Maoism is justifiedly the development of proletarian revolutions and ceaseless continuation of revolutions under proletarian dictatorship against the bourgeoisie. The Marxism of the free competition-based capitalism reached the stage of Leninism in the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution. Marxism appeared 150 years ago when capitalism based on free competition was developing and in the process of completing the bourgeois democratic revolutions. www.etext.org /Politics/MIM/countries/turkey/maoism.html   (16000 words)

Marxism --  Encyclopædia Britannica Marxism, which provides remarkable evidence of the power of dominant key ideas to inspire and direct man, is undoubtedly one of the greatest challenges to traditional religious belief. There is also Marxism as it has been understood and practiced by the various socialist movements, particularly before 1914. Born in Cherbourg, France, he became a convert to Marxism in 1893, but by 1902 had turned altogether against government, even under communism. www.britannica.com /eb/article-9108467   (690 words)

ParEcon.org -- Marxism’s Anniversary So we can see why with the demise of the Soviet model, allegiance to Marxism and Marxism Leninism might also wane, since these ideologies were indeed aimed in their principles, concepts, thought, and vision (though not the deepest aspirations of many of their advocates), at this model. Finally, Leninism is a natural outgrowth of Marxism employed by people in capitalist societies, and Marxism Leninism, far from being the “theory and strategy for the working class,” is, instead, by its focus, concepts, values, and goals, the “theory and strategy for the coordinator (professional-managerial, technocratic…) class.” And, in the case of Marxism and Marxism Leninism, the faults are basic to the underlying concepts so that correcting them is not just tinkering with the system. www.parecon.org /writings/marxismarticle.htm   (2469 words)

Communist Party of Carolinas Marxism teaches us that social relations are both reflected and reproduced in capitalism, and to clearly guage objective conditions we need to understand the interplay between that reflection and reproduction as it relates to male supremacy. The perceived "tension" between feminism and Marxism is an example of such a false dichotomy. The implicit dichotomy in such an assertion is arbitrary in general and misrepresentative of Marxism. www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Senate/9744/women.html   (4186 words)

IngentaConnect Marxism-Leninism as a political religion The Lenin mausoleum served as the monumental centrepiece of sacral rites and practices to be enacted by the Stalinist orthodoxy. This article describes Lenin's utopian design of a revolutionary community of virtuosi as a typical political religion of an intelligentsia longing for an inner-worldly salvation, a socialist paradise without exploitation and alienation, to be implanted in the Russian backward society at the outskirts of the industrialised and modernised Western Europe. Consequently, the Leninist policy of social extermination of political opponents, ideological rivals and stigmatised social classes became a sacral obligation to be fulfilled by the new ideological orthodoxy. www.ingentaconnect.com /content/routledg/tmp/2005/00000006/00000001/art00007;jsessionid=ts9p128kd35k.victoria   (267 words)

AN HISTORIC VICTORY OF MARXISM-LENINISM OVER REVISIONISM Congress, a retrogressive, opportunist and revisionist trend was being developed and spread which by playing on the new conditions and demagogic slogan of 'creative Marxism', was moving further and further away from the basic principles of revolutionary theory and practice. 'The authority of Leninism', Comrade Enver Hoxha stressed, 'has been and continues to be decisive. But the fact that the revisionists feel obliged to speak of this matter shows that the masses of Soviet workers, of the revolutionaries and of people, keep Stalin's ideas fresh in their minds, that the masses are becoming more and more aware of the betrayal which has gripped them by the throat. www.oneparty.co.uk /html/histvict.html   (8309 words)

RevolutionaryLeft.com -> Debate: Leninism Vs. Marxism Lenin and Mao's interpretation of Marxism may have been necessary for their countries for their times, but it doesn't necessarily mean that it works in general, or that their interpretations are actually what Marx was talking about. As Leninism is a word to represent his theories, and so on and so on. When Lenin, supported by Trotsky, introduced the "New Economic Policy" and went whoring after foreign investments, he admitted, in effect, that Marx was right and further, that all of Lenin's own yap about "socialism" and "the dictatorship of the proletariat" was completely meaningless. www.revolutionaryleft.com /index.php?showtopic=29276   (5606 words)

Definitions of Marxist Movements and Theories This was explicitly defined in Stalin's Foundations of Leninism as Marxist theory in an imperialist age. Maoism seems to be a unique form of Marxism which arose as a result of specific situations in less-developed countries and former colonies of Western nations. In the structuralist vision of Marxism, instead of the economic base having primacy over the superstructure, numerous areas throughout society were assigned causal importance. www.angelfire.com /va/jsorenK/marxism.html   (884 words)

Marxism - Leninism in the 21st century The invention of ’Leninism’ as a religiously mummified orthodoxy, was part of the process of bureaucratisation of the Comintern and the Soviet Union. We have to start by remembering that the very term Leninism only appeared after the death of Lenin, notably in the speech by Zinoviev to the Fifth Congress of the Communist International (1924). The foundation of Lenin’s post-1914 strategy was that imperialism was in its ’death agony’, and was by definition a period of capitalist decline. www.internationalviewpoint.org /article.php3?id_article=605   (2969 words)

ABC of Marxism "LENINISM is the development of Marxism, Marxism in the new conditions of the class struggle of the proletariat, Marxism of the era of imperialism and proletarian revolution, Marxism in the era of the construction of socialism and the step-by-step transition to communist society. To be more exact, Leninism is the theory and tactics of the proletarian revolution in general, the theory and tactics of the dictatorship of the proletariat in particular." (J.V. Stalin, Problems of Leninism, Foreign Languages Press, Peking, 1976, p. V.I. Lenin elaborated the teaching on the party of the new type, of the Soviet socialist state. www.mltranslations.org /Russia/Stalinmcd.htm   (1045 words)

Fundamental Documents Furthermore, we must keep well in mind that when Comrade Stalin justly and correctly stated that we had entered the stage of Leninism as the development of Marxism, there was also opposition by those who rend their garments in a supposed defense of Marxism. The denial of the "ism" character of Maoism denies its universal validity and, consequently, its condition as the third, new, and superior stage of the ideology of the international proletariat: Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, principally Maoism, that we uphold, defend, and apply. Notwithstanding the uproar against what is new by pedantic and bookish intellectuals, who are stuffed with liberalism and false Marxism, the only just and correct thing to do is to apply Marxism to the concrete conditions and to solve the new situations and problems that every revolution necessarily faces. www.blythe.org /peru-pcp/docs_en/fund.htm   (4391 words)

Marxism/Leninism Marxism sees religion and God as manmade institutions invented to ease emotional pain and explain life and death. Many Christian groups have combined their Christianity with Marxism, sometimes referred to as the "Christian Left." The World Council of Churches has been described as "an instrument of Soviet policy since 1966." In America, the Maryknoll priests, the liberation theologians, Episcopal and Methodist groups and Jesuits have been active on the side of communist insurrection. A Marxist cultural revolution is taking place today in American universities where Marxism is alive and well. www.jeremiahproject.com /culture/view_marxist.html   (502 words)

Marxism–Leninism Term used by the Soviet dictator Stalin and his supporters to define their own views as the orthodox position of Marxism as a means of refuting criticism. It has subsequently been employed by other communist parties as a yardstick for ideological purity. www.tiscali.co.uk /reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0044116.html   (109 words)

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