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LeninismPrinciples expounded by Vladimir Ilich Lenin to guide the transition of society from capitalism to communism. The tenets of Marxism, which Lenin embraced, provided no concrete guidelines for the transition. Lenin believed that a small, disciplined, professional group of revolutionaries was needed to violently overthrow the capitalist system and that a “dictatorship of the proletariat” must guide society until the day when the state would wither away. Leninism in practice meant control of all aspects of life by the Communist Party and the creation of the first modern totalitarian state. See also Bolshevik; Stalinism; totalitarianism. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| James's Notes on Dialectics: Left Hegelianism or Marxism-Leninism (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2005). Above all it was a discipline that seemed alienated from popular concerns and blind to genuine conflicts of interest, just as the "philosophy" promoted under the heading of Marxism-Leninism Mao Zedong Thought (MLM) had been prior to reform and opening up. David Aikman, former Beijing bureau chief of Time magazine, wrote in his book Jesus in Beijing that, "Christianity is emerging in China at a time when there is a massive ideological vacuum left in society by the nationwide collapse of belief in Marxism-Leninism. |
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