Lenin On Imperialism

Of relatively obscure social origin, born and raise in one of the provincial backwaters of Russia, Lenin was a recognized Marxist, political publicist, and revolutionary leader by the time he was thirty years old. At the age of forty-seven, he became the founder of the first Communist regime and the leader of a political movement which-within the span of one short generation-would succeed in establishing control over more than one-third of mankind and would aspire to extend that control to the rest of the world.

To understand the model and theory of Lenin we must understand the ways in which he utilized the theories of Marx and revolution in ways which expanded them, and also allowed him to manipulate them so that the will of the p

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m are ironic in retrospect because many of them are criticism that could be leveled at the form of socialist communism in which they resulted “Uneven development and wretched conditions of the masses are fundamental and inevitable conditions and premises of this mode of production [capitalism].” The party, therefore, erected by Lenin was one whose mask was worn for the proletariat, but behind the scenes it was a minority elite chosen for its intellectual and moral superiority in contrast to the proletariat. Lenin felt leaders failed if they tried to push the people further than they were willing to go, or if they remained timid when the people were ready to mover forward. What people wanted was really only significant as a means of informing the state how far it could go with its intellectually and morally superior plan. Organization and discipline were crucial to Lenin in terms of material union, and ideological union was just as important of a requirement for the success of his movement, one firmly founded on Lenin’s interpretation of Marxism. Capitalism ground the proletariat into slave labor in Lenin’s view, but he understood that imperialism was necessary for those countries who adopted capitalism as a means “The capita
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