striving for domination instead of striving for liberty, the exploitations of an increasing number of small or weak nations by a handful of the richest or most powerful nations—all these have given birth to those distinctive characteristics of imperialism which compel us to define it as parasitic or decaying capitalism.”
Marxism, thus, became a religious belief to Lenin, a moral imperative for saving Russia from the flaws he believed were inherent in imperialism and capitalism. Because of this, Lenin often viewed Marx based on what he personally decided Marx meant. Lenin would haphazardly try to meet the problems of Russia using the Social Democratic Party in Germany as a model. However, when problems arose he would improvise to meet them, an improvisation that always used Marxism as its base. Lenin believed that the evolution from feudalism to capitalism to socialism was inviolate. He found that when imperialism existed, it represented a decay of capitalism even in th
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