Leninism

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Leninism is a Marxist political and revolutionary theory that emphasizes the role of a vanguard party, democratic centralism, and the necessity of a proletarian dictatorship to achieve and consolidate socialism.

Observed surface forms (1)

Surface form As subject As object
Bolshevism 0 3

Statements (51)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Marxist theory
political ideology
revolutionary theory
associatedWith Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
surface form: Bolshevik Party

Comintern
Russian Revolution
surface form: Russian Revolution of 1917

Soviet Union
basedOn Marxism
codifiedIn Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
The State and Revolution
surface form: State and Revolution

What Is to Be Done?
componentOf Marxism–Leninism
contrastsWith anarchism
liberalism
social democracy
countryOfOrigin Russian Empire
developedBy Vladimir Lenin
emergedIn early 20th century
goal establishment of socialism
overthrow of capitalism
rule by the working class
hasCoreConcept alliance of workers and peasants
centralized decision making
democratic centralism
democratic internal debate
dictatorship of the proletariat
imperialism as highest stage of capitalism
one-party rule in the transitional period
party discipline
proletarian revolution
transition to socialism
vanguard party
historicalPeriod Russian Revolution era
influenced Bolshevism
International Meeting of Communist and Workers' Parties
surface form: Communist parties worldwide

Marxism–Leninism
Soviet political system
Third International
influencedBy Friedrich Engels
Karl Marx
Russian revolutionary conditions
namedAfter Vladimir Lenin
opposes economism
liberal democracy as final form of government
parliamentary reformism
spontaneism
politicalPosition far-left
supports centralized socialist state
planned economy in the transition to communism
revolutionary seizure of power
views imperialism as a global system of capitalist domination

Referenced by (30)

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Maoism basedOn Leninism
Trotskyism basedOn Leninism
April Theses ideology Leninism
Felix Dzerzhinsky ideology Leninism
Lev Kamenev ideology Leninism
Nikolai Bukharin ideology Leninism
Russian Revolution ideology Leninism
Vladimir Lenin ideology Leninism
Georgi Plekhanov influenced Leninism
this entity surface form: Bolshevism
Hoxhaism influencedBy Leninism
this entity surface form: Bolshevism
this entity surface form: Bolshevism
communism relatedTo Leninism
Marxism subschool Leninism